An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Volume 2Hunt and Clarke, 1826 - 438 pages |
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... which has been regulated and determined by the nature of things , and by that necessity to which all that exists by itself owes its existence ? Is it not necessarily to last a whole eternity ? And is not EPICURUS . 37.
... which has been regulated and determined by the nature of things , and by that necessity to which all that exists by itself owes its existence ? Is it not necessarily to last a whole eternity ? And is not EPICURUS . 37.
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... exists from all eternity , and that the fatal necessity of self - existing beings cannot be changed : they therefore let the stream run on , and do not un- dertake to reform an immutable order . Neither ought we to wonder that their ...
... exists from all eternity , and that the fatal necessity of self - existing beings cannot be changed : they therefore let the stream run on , and do not un- dertake to reform an immutable order . Neither ought we to wonder that their ...
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... exist , no man living will deny . I an- swer , that evil is not a living essence , and endued with soul ; but a quality of the soul , contrary to vir- tue ; planted in the slothful and lazy , because they have fallen from good . Do not ...
... exist , no man living will deny . I an- swer , that evil is not a living essence , and endued with soul ; but a quality of the soul , contrary to vir- tue ; planted in the slothful and lazy , because they have fallen from good . Do not ...
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... exist by an effect of his goodness , he gave them also , under the character of a bountiful cause , all the perfections which are proper for every kind . We must therefore say that he expressed a greater love for those which received ...
... exist by an effect of his goodness , he gave them also , under the character of a bountiful cause , all the perfections which are proper for every kind . We must therefore say that he expressed a greater love for those which received ...
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... exist . Mathematical points , and consequently the lines and surfaces , globes and axes , of the geometricians are fictions which never can have a being : they are therefore inferior to those of the poets ; for the lat- ter commonly ...
... exist . Mathematical points , and consequently the lines and surfaces , globes and axes , of the geometricians are fictions which never can have a being : they are therefore inferior to those of the poets ; for the lat- ter commonly ...
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