An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 1Hunt and Clarke, 1826 - 438 pages |
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... arguments which he had with a priest who lodged in the same house with him at Toulouse , completed his conversion . The can- dour and rectitude of following up these temporary con- victions , will often atone for the simplicity with ...
... arguments which he had with a priest who lodged in the same house with him at Toulouse , completed his conversion . The can- dour and rectitude of following up these temporary con- victions , will often atone for the simplicity with ...
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... arguments in support of authority against innovation usually employed by the Catholics ; but , as it may be supposed , it made no im- pression upon a person supported and fortified by the counsels of his father and family . In the mean ...
... arguments in support of authority against innovation usually employed by the Catholics ; but , as it may be supposed , it made no im- pression upon a person supported and fortified by the counsels of his father and family . In the mean ...
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... argument on the occasion , because in the then temper of the people they would listen to no other . " If comets are presages of evil , " he observed , " God must have performed miracles to confirm idolatry in the world . " It was ...
... argument on the occasion , because in the then temper of the people they would listen to no other . " If comets are presages of evil , " he observed , " God must have performed miracles to confirm idolatry in the world . " It was ...
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... arguments , and excite an anxiety to peruse them . A journal like that carried on by Bayle could scarcely fail of engaging him in occasional exchanges both of cour- tesy and wrangling . The French Academy , to whom he presented it ...
... arguments , and excite an anxiety to peruse them . A journal like that carried on by Bayle could scarcely fail of engaging him in occasional exchanges both of cour- tesy and wrangling . The French Academy , to whom he presented it ...
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... arguing on every side of a ques- tion , the extraordinary superiority of his famous Diction- ary chiefly consists . Hence , too , his strength and his weakness ; for as no man ever equalled him for marshal- ling opposing arguments in ...
... arguing on every side of a ques- tion , the extraordinary superiority of his famous Diction- ary chiefly consists . Hence , too , his strength and his weakness ; for as no man ever equalled him for marshal- ling opposing arguments in ...
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