The Works of President Edwards ...Isaac Sturtevant, Printer, 1808 - Congregational churches |
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... words , French and Spaniards ; by which the significa- tion of our minds is quick and easy , and our speech is delivered from the burden of a continual reiteration of diffuse descriptions , with which it must otherwise be embarrassed ...
... words , French and Spaniards ; by which the significa- tion of our minds is quick and easy , and our speech is delivered from the burden of a continual reiteration of diffuse descriptions , with which it must otherwise be embarrassed ...
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... word being generally as well understood as any other words we can use to explain it : And so perhaps it would be , had not phi- losophers , metaphysicians and polemic divines brought the matter into obscurity by the things they have ...
... word being generally as well understood as any other words we can use to explain it : And so perhaps it would be , had not phi- losophers , metaphysicians and polemic divines brought the matter into obscurity by the things they have ...
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... words of precisely the same signification : Will seems to be a word of a more general Human Understanding , vol . i..p . 203 , 204 . signification , extending to things present and absent . Desire FREEDOM OF THE WILL . 11.
... words of precisely the same signification : Will seems to be a word of a more general Human Understanding , vol . i..p . 203 , 204 . signification , extending to things present and absent . Desire FREEDOM OF THE WILL . 11.
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... words ; and certainly , the same consideration , so influences him , that he does not desire the contrary : All things considered , he chooses to utter such words , and does not desire not to utter them . And so as to the thing which Mr ...
... words ; and certainly , the same consideration , so influences him , that he does not desire the contrary : All things considered , he chooses to utter such words , and does not desire not to utter them . And so as to the thing which Mr ...
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... words necessary , impossible , & c . are abundantly used in controversies about Free Will and moral agency ; and therefore the sense in which they are used , should be clearly understood . Here I might say , that a thing is then 22 ...
... words necessary , impossible , & c . are abundantly used in controversies about Free Will and moral agency ; and therefore the sense in which they are used , should be clearly understood . Here I might say , that a thing is then 22 ...
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