The Chart and Scale of Truth,: By which to Find the Cause of Error. Lectures Read Before the University of Oxford, at the Lecture Founded by the Rev. John Bampton, M.A.J. Fletcher, D. Prince and J. Cooke: J. F. and C. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard, by T. Cadell, in the Strand, and Richardson, Royal Exchange, London., 1790 - 324 pages |
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... exercise . In this province , truth does not fpring from any Material fubject in the compass of the univerfe , or from the Mind of man in its ope- rations and effects , as in thofe which have been difcuffed ; but from another and much ...
... exercise . In this province , truth does not fpring from any Material fubject in the compass of the univerfe , or from the Mind of man in its ope- rations and effects , as in thofe which have been difcuffed ; but from another and much ...
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... exercise of that will . Who may presume to wonder , that He , who is the fountain of all truth , fhould commu- nicate to his moral agents fuch portions of it , as their reason cannot deduce from those ma- terial and mental fubjects with ...
... exercise of that will . Who may presume to wonder , that He , who is the fountain of all truth , fhould commu- nicate to his moral agents fuch portions of it , as their reason cannot deduce from those ma- terial and mental fubjects with ...
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... exercise of REASON in the province of Theo- logy , in which the industrious husbandman will find more and different employment . The HOLY SCRIPTURES are the fole repo- fitory of all the mysteries of religion , doc- trinal and moral ...
... exercise of REASON in the province of Theo- logy , in which the industrious husbandman will find more and different employment . The HOLY SCRIPTURES are the fole repo- fitory of all the mysteries of religion , doc- trinal and moral ...
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... exercise of their powers . And as , in the prosecution of every subject , the firft and the most important thing is to escape the wrong , and to get into the right , road ; fo , by adopting that method of interpretation , which is ...
... exercise of their powers . And as , in the prosecution of every subject , the firft and the most important thing is to escape the wrong , and to get into the right , road ; fo , by adopting that method of interpretation , which is ...
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... has been the task of many ages , as a mine unexhausted and inexhauftible , it is calculated , as has been observed , to exercise the the skill and ingenuity of the learned to the end 104 The Chart and Scale SECT. III. ...
... has been the task of many ages , as a mine unexhausted and inexhauftible , it is calculated , as has been observed , to exercise the the skill and ingenuity of the learned to the end 104 The Chart and Scale SECT. III. ...
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