Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... religion , it too often happens that belief goes before examination , and we take our creed front our nurse , but not our conviction . If the intellectual food should afterwards rise upon the stomach , it is because in this unnatural ...
... religion , it too often happens that belief goes before examination , and we take our creed front our nurse , but not our conviction . If the intellectual food should afterwards rise upon the stomach , it is because in this unnatural ...
Page 67
... religion of the Christians ; the lazy , and enjoy their immortal nature in an uninterrupted tranquillity , than see them active and cruelly employed in ruining ours . " Nay , Epicurus by doing so , pretended he shewed his great respect ...
... religion of the Christians ; the lazy , and enjoy their immortal nature in an uninterrupted tranquillity , than see them active and cruelly employed in ruining ours . " Nay , Epicurus by doing so , pretended he shewed his great respect ...
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... religious world , in the West of England , was lately much occupied , by a very learned controversy on this subject , carried on by three doughty champions , each of whom with more of eru- dition , but perhaps less of gentleness , than ...
... religious world , in the West of England , was lately much occupied , by a very learned controversy on this subject , carried on by three doughty champions , each of whom with more of eru- dition , but perhaps less of gentleness , than ...
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... religion , polemics in con- troversy , partizans in politics , and empyrics in science ; of enthusiasts , who believe what they cannot explain , and of impostors , who explain what they do not believe . As to literature , bulky quartos ...
... religion , polemics in con- troversy , partizans in politics , and empyrics in science ; of enthusiasts , who believe what they cannot explain , and of impostors , who explain what they do not believe . As to literature , bulky quartos ...
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... religion . The priests op- posing the bishops , the people the priests ; and in some places not only robbing the churches , burning the tithes , but trampling under foot the holy eucharist , that was consecrated by such , whom Pope ...
... religion . The priests op- posing the bishops , the people the priests ; and in some places not only robbing the churches , burning the tithes , but trampling under foot the holy eucharist , that was consecrated by such , whom Pope ...
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