The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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Page vii
... conclusion is not merely that there is an evidence on the side of Christianity , as much superior to the greater improbability of its extraordinary facts , as the best evidence which has descended to us from ancient times is PREFACE . vii.
... conclusion is not merely that there is an evidence on the side of Christianity , as much superior to the greater improbability of its extraordinary facts , as the best evidence which has descended to us from ancient times is PREFACE . vii.
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... fact belong to us , all our sciences would be affected with a correspond- ing difference . A differently constituted mental system in our species , would have made all our sciences different from those which make up our existing ...
... fact belong to us , all our sciences would be affected with a correspond- ing difference . A differently constituted mental system in our species , would have made all our sciences different from those which make up our existing ...
Page 38
... fact the result of a train of reasoning so rapid as to escape notice . This I conceive to be the true theory of what is gene- rally called common sense , in opposition to book - learning ; and it serves to account for the use which has ...
... fact the result of a train of reasoning so rapid as to escape notice . This I conceive to be the true theory of what is gene- rally called common sense , in opposition to book - learning ; and it serves to account for the use which has ...
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... fact of his conversion left his own distinct confirmation behind him , and each of its enemies having done the same thing in the fact of his silence - these topics have undergone repeated elucidation in the hands of the defenders of ...
... fact of his conversion left his own distinct confirmation behind him , and each of its enemies having done the same thing in the fact of his silence - these topics have undergone repeated elucidation in the hands of the defenders of ...
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... fact this were just such a beginning as that of the labourer who should imagine that ere he enters with the spade in his hand on the work of digging , he must first have computed the powers of its wedge , or ascertained the specific ...
... fact this were just such a beginning as that of the labourer who should imagine that ere he enters with the spade in his hand on the work of digging , he must first have computed the powers of its wedge , or ascertained the specific ...
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