Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. From the 8th London EdLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 267 pages |
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... interest , the moment we quit the light of.revelation , we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrronism , and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt . In an age remarkable for good reasoning and bad ...
... interest , the moment we quit the light of.revelation , we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrronism , and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt . In an age remarkable for good reasoning and bad ...
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... interests of humanity , if vice of every kind were more odious , and less attractive ; if she were always ex- hibited to us , like the drunken Helot to the youths of Sparta , in her true and disgusting shape . It is fitting , that what ...
... interests of humanity , if vice of every kind were more odious , and less attractive ; if she were always ex- hibited to us , like the drunken Helot to the youths of Sparta , in her true and disgusting shape . It is fitting , that what ...
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... interest , in the end . Milton's expressions on his right to this re- muneration , constitute some of the finest efforts of his mind . He never alludes to these high pretensions , but he appears to be animated by an eloquence , which is ...
... interest , in the end . Milton's expressions on his right to this re- muneration , constitute some of the finest efforts of his mind . He never alludes to these high pretensions , but he appears to be animated by an eloquence , which is ...
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... may fail with regard to others , yet if pure and good , with regard to himself and his highest interests , they cannot fail ; and with respect to his prayers to God , although they cannot make the Deity more 40 MANY THINGS.
... may fail with regard to others , yet if pure and good , with regard to himself and his highest interests , they cannot fail ; and with respect to his prayers to God , although they cannot make the Deity more 40 MANY THINGS.
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... interest to that which was forbidding , light to that which was the essence of darkness . For atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illu- mination , except from those faggots which your mistaken zeal has lighted ...
... interest to that which was forbidding , light to that which was the essence of darkness . For atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illu- mination , except from those faggots which your mistaken zeal has lighted ...
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