An Essay on Man: Enlarged and Improved by the Author, Together with His MS. Additions and Variations as in the Last Edition of His Works. With the Notes of William, Lord Bishop of GloucesterW. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777 - 124 pages |
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... exprefs them more shortly this way than in profe itself , and nothing is truer than that much of the force , as well as grace , of argu- ments or inftructions depends on their concifenefs . I was unable to treat this part of my subject ...
... exprefs them more shortly this way than in profe itself , and nothing is truer than that much of the force , as well as grace , of argu- ments or inftructions depends on their concifenefs . I was unable to treat this part of my subject ...
Page 8
... exprefs terms , that God gave us hope to supply that future bliss , which he at prefent keeps hid from us . In his fecond epiftle , ver . 274 , he goes ftill further , and fays , this HOPE quits us not even at Death , when every thing ...
... exprefs terms , that God gave us hope to supply that future bliss , which he at prefent keeps hid from us . In his fecond epiftle , ver . 274 , he goes ftill further , and fays , this HOPE quits us not even at Death , when every thing ...
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... exprefs his own particular principles ; and fuch a thing might well be , because the Spinozifts , in order to hide the impiety of their principle , are wont to exprefs the Omniprefence of God in terms that any religious Theift might ...
... exprefs his own particular principles ; and fuch a thing might well be , because the Spinozifts , in order to hide the impiety of their principle , are wont to exprefs the Omniprefence of God in terms that any religious Theift might ...
Page 80
... exprefs words , against the plain fenfe of his fyftem , has been conceived to mean , That all Go- vernments and all Religions were , as to their forms and objects , indifferent . But as this wrong judgment pro- ceeded from ignorance of ...
... exprefs words , against the plain fenfe of his fyftem , has been conceived to mean , That all Go- vernments and all Religions were , as to their forms and objects , indifferent . But as this wrong judgment pro- ceeded from ignorance of ...
Page 121
... the Poet's purpose to infinuate , that Revelation was the right , nothing could better exprefs his purpose , than the making the right fecured by the guards of grace . This day , be Bread and Peace my Lot : UNIVERSAL PRAYER . : 121.
... the Poet's purpose to infinuate , that Revelation was the right , nothing could better exprefs his purpose , than the making the right fecured by the guards of grace . This day , be Bread and Peace my Lot : UNIVERSAL PRAYER . : 121.
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