Vindiciiœ Priestleianœ: an address to the students of Oxford and Cambridge; occasioned by a letter to Dr. Priestley from a person calling himself an undergraduate, but publicly and uncontradictedly ascribed to Dr. Horne, Dean of Canterbury ...J. Johnson, 1788 - 320 pages |
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... reason , a thing quite out of nature , and probability . But a proper inquiry , and investigation would have fhewn him , ་ that ( a ) One is furprized that the learned Fortin , should have paid fo little attention to this fubject , and ...
... reason , a thing quite out of nature , and probability . But a proper inquiry , and investigation would have fhewn him , ་ that ( a ) One is furprized that the learned Fortin , should have paid fo little attention to this fubject , and ...
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... reason and fact . What a door alfo does it open to the worst fuperftition , to be told that a return to fin- cere piety and virtue will not fatisfy or ap- peafe the divine difpleasure against fin ? What evil is there , which the opinion ...
... reason and fact . What a door alfo does it open to the worst fuperftition , to be told that a return to fin- cere piety and virtue will not fatisfy or ap- peafe the divine difpleasure against fin ? What evil is there , which the opinion ...
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... reason , and that if it were in my power , I would have it taken away . " - Emlyn's works , vol . ii . P. 493 . • From this narrative , it may deferve to be remarked ; that the first princes of the houfe of Hanover , George I , and ...
... reason , and that if it were in my power , I would have it taken away . " - Emlyn's works , vol . ii . P. 493 . • From this narrative , it may deferve to be remarked ; that the first princes of the houfe of Hanover , George I , and ...
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... reasons to the public , why they judged it more expedient , and preferable , to apply to the legislature for relief , rather than to the bishops alone . But there was another clerical affembly at the time , compofed of a different set ...
... reasons to the public , why they judged it more expedient , and preferable , to apply to the legislature for relief , rather than to the bishops alone . But there was another clerical affembly at the time , compofed of a different set ...
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... Reasons of Dr. Horne's not feeing this . THE famous Burnet of the Charter - house , after having delivered his own sentiments , with great force of argument , from reason and scripture , and in a most affecting strain , against the ...
... Reasons of Dr. Horne's not feeing this . THE famous Burnet of the Charter - house , after having delivered his own sentiments , with great force of argument , from reason and scripture , and in a most affecting strain , against the ...
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