The Works of William Paley: With a Life of the Author, Volume 5Thomas Tegg, 1825 |
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... give to religion all the advantage we can give it by dint of education ; for all that can be done is too little to set religion upon an equality with its rival ; which rival is the world . A creature which is to pass a small portion of ...
... give to religion all the advantage we can give it by dint of education ; for all that can be done is too little to set religion upon an equality with its rival ; which rival is the world . A creature which is to pass a small portion of ...
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... give up . But this is not the whole , nor is it the bottom of the matter . The effect we allude to is not so rea- soning or argumentative as this . It is a specific effect upon the mind . The heart is rendered unsusceptible of religious ...
... give up . But this is not the whole , nor is it the bottom of the matter . The effect we allude to is not so rea- soning or argumentative as this . It is a specific effect upon the mind . The heart is rendered unsusceptible of religious ...
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... said , that with the greater part of mankind , especially of that class of mankind which must or does give much of its time and care to worldly con-阚 cerns , they are little less than absolutely necessary ; SERMONS . 9.
... said , that with the greater part of mankind , especially of that class of mankind which must or does give much of its time and care to worldly con-阚 cerns , they are little less than absolutely necessary ; SERMONS . 9.
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... gives up the doubter to sen- suality , to the world , and to the flesh . Now , of all ways which a man can take , this is the surest way to destruction ; and it is completely irrational . I say it is completely irrational ; for when we ...
... gives up the doubter to sen- suality , to the world , and to the flesh . Now , of all ways which a man can take , this is the surest way to destruction ; and it is completely irrational . I say it is completely irrational ; for when we ...
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... give him this evidence , but it is not yet attained : as yet , therefore , there is a great deficiency . The taste and relish for devotion , of which we are speaking , is what good men in all ages have felt strongly . It appears in ...
... give him this evidence , but it is not yet attained : as yet , therefore , there is a great deficiency . The taste and relish for devotion , of which we are speaking , is what good men in all ages have felt strongly . It appears in ...
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