The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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... instance , by the peculiar character of their objections , challenged its friends to a walk of investigation which had not been previously entered on - in the prosecution of which walk they achieved a great deal more than simply ...
... instance , by the peculiar character of their objections , challenged its friends to a walk of investigation which had not been previously entered on - in the prosecution of which walk they achieved a great deal more than simply ...
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... instance , whether the inquirer's confidence is in just proportion to the evidence that has been presented to him ? Yet practically and really the confidence will grow with the evidence , and may be in right proportion there- unto ...
... instance , whether the inquirer's confidence is in just proportion to the evidence that has been presented to him ? Yet practically and really the confidence will grow with the evidence , and may be in right proportion there- unto ...
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Thomas Chalmers. The constituted understanding may judge rightly in every instance ; while , in no one instance , might any man , though endowed with the most subtle or powerful understanding upon earth , be able to assign numerically ...
Thomas Chalmers. The constituted understanding may judge rightly in every instance ; while , in no one instance , might any man , though endowed with the most subtle or powerful understanding upon earth , be able to assign numerically ...
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... instances , I have been disposed to ascribe this to the faults of early education ; but , in other cases , I am persuaded , that it was the effect of active and imperious habits in quickening the evanes- cent processes of thought , so ...
... instances , I have been disposed to ascribe this to the faults of early education ; but , in other cases , I am persuaded , that it was the effect of active and imperious habits in quickening the evanes- cent processes of thought , so ...
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... instances it has had its proper effect on those who attended to it . The consistency and sincerity by which the whole narrative is so obviously pervaded - the number and opportunities of the original witnesses , and the manner in which ...
... instances it has had its proper effect on those who attended to it . The consistency and sincerity by which the whole narrative is so obviously pervaded - the number and opportunities of the original witnesses , and the manner in which ...
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