A Selection from Unpublished Papers of ... William Warburton ...J.B. Nichols and son, 1841 - 449 pages |
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... speaking of Wollaston , you take oc- casion to quote a passage from Don Quixote . As Wollaston was a sober serious writer and a scholar , and of an exceeding good character in pri- vate life , the treating his performance with an air of ...
... speaking of Wollaston , you take oc- casion to quote a passage from Don Quixote . As Wollaston was a sober serious writer and a scholar , and of an exceeding good character in pri- vate life , the treating his performance with an air of ...
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... the kings do indeed mention the inequality in very strong terms ; but , I apprehend , they are there speaking of their pagan neighbours and enemies , amongst whom good and bad hap- pened THE DIVINE LEGATION . 57 1 7 15.
... the kings do indeed mention the inequality in very strong terms ; but , I apprehend , they are there speaking of their pagan neighbours and enemies , amongst whom good and bad hap- pened THE DIVINE LEGATION . 57 1 7 15.
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... speak of them as such , and it is very re- markable that these very rites were in use at the death of Jacob , as appears from Genesis , 1. as , the particular profession of embalmers - the ope- ration of embalming continuing 40 days ...
... speak of them as such , and it is very re- markable that these very rites were in use at the death of Jacob , as appears from Genesis , 1. as , the particular profession of embalmers - the ope- ration of embalming continuing 40 days ...
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... speak the author's sense plainly . But one passage there is , which I find has , above all others , given ground to those suspicions ; it is dedication , p . 18 , where you say of the author of A Letter to Dr. Waterland , that he is one ...
... speak the author's sense plainly . But one passage there is , which I find has , above all others , given ground to those suspicions ; it is dedication , p . 18 , where you say of the author of A Letter to Dr. Waterland , that he is one ...
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... speak of it as the opinion , and claimed as the invention , of some few whom he could name . But if he spoke of the doctrine of transmigration , G he truly said , that some Greeks had taught it THE DIVINE LEGATION . 81.
... speak of it as the opinion , and claimed as the invention , of some few whom he could name . But if he spoke of the doctrine of transmigration , G he truly said , that some Greeks had taught it THE DIVINE LEGATION . 81.
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Page 311 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Page 31 - In those days they shall say no more, "The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge." But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Page 344 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Page 271 - Moses, but of the fathers ; and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. 23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day ? 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Page vii - He was a man of vigorous faculties, a mind fervid and vehement, supplied by incessant and unlimited inquiry, with wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which yet had not oppressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicacity.
Page 238 - ... to any mortal by anything which I think can look like the least violation either of decency or good manners ; and yet, with all the caution of a heart void of offence or intention of giving it, I may find it very hard, in writing such a book as ' Tristram Shandy,' to mutilate everything in it down to the prudish humour of every particular.
Page 431 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Page 42 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
Page 47 - And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Page 161 - I receive not honour from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only...