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... opinions that are vulgarly re- ceived , for that very reason , because they are so1 . At all events , what men do not like , they are very unwilling to understand , and still more backward to believe . If the above several causes do not ...
... opinions that are vulgarly re- ceived , for that very reason , because they are so1 . At all events , what men do not like , they are very unwilling to understand , and still more backward to believe . If the above several causes do not ...
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... opinion of the wonderful con- trarieties to be found in MAN . " What a chimera then is man ! what a surprising novelty ! what a confused chaos ! what a subject of contradiction ! a professed judge of all things , and yet a feeble worm ...
... opinion of the wonderful con- trarieties to be found in MAN . " What a chimera then is man ! what a surprising novelty ! what a confused chaos ! what a subject of contradiction ! a professed judge of all things , and yet a feeble worm ...
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... opinion , but from a proper his- tory of the species . Of our Author , we can know no- thing certain , but from what he may have been pleased to reveal ; nor of our end , but through him on whom the end as much as the beginning depends ...
... opinion , but from a proper his- tory of the species . Of our Author , we can know no- thing certain , but from what he may have been pleased to reveal ; nor of our end , but through him on whom the end as much as the beginning depends ...
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... opinion of St. Paul , Christianity is so entirely founded upon the Mosaic history as to admit of no separation , and that of course the credit of Moses is at the bottom of every thing connected with the faith of a Christian , I pur ...
... opinion of St. Paul , Christianity is so entirely founded upon the Mosaic history as to admit of no separation , and that of course the credit of Moses is at the bottom of every thing connected with the faith of a Christian , I pur ...
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... either so old as the Hindu records pretend , or , which is more re- markable , at all older than the Mosaic era of creation , according to the largest Scriptural computation ex- M. BAILLY'S OPINION OF THEM . 39 tant , I.
... either so old as the Hindu records pretend , or , which is more re- markable , at all older than the Mosaic era of creation , according to the largest Scriptural computation ex- M. BAILLY'S OPINION OF THEM . 39 tant , I.
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