The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... cause of truth and Christianity ; but I feel severely that our minds are not con- stituted alike ; and being totally incapable of entering into that spirit of skepticism which you deem it your duty to inculcate from the pulpit , I ...
... cause of truth and Christianity ; but I feel severely that our minds are not con- stituted alike ; and being totally incapable of entering into that spirit of skepticism which you deem it your duty to inculcate from the pulpit , I ...
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... Societies , gave to them his most cordial support ; on many occasions advocating their cause at public meetings , and on others employ- ing his pen in their defence . To the concerns SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE . xiii.
... Societies , gave to them his most cordial support ; on many occasions advocating their cause at public meetings , and on others employ- ing his pen in their defence . To the concerns SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE . xiii.
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... cause has prevented him , till the present period , from fulfilling a subsequent request to submit them to the public ; though he has always intended to do so as soon as he could find leisure . As the lectures were delivered from ...
... cause has prevented him , till the present period , from fulfilling a subsequent request to submit them to the public ; though he has always intended to do so as soon as he could find leisure . As the lectures were delivered from ...
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... cause to be , " to import a formation from a sub- stance already in existence , we have sufficient proof that it was also under- stood of old to import emphatically , like our own word " create , ” an absolute formation out of nothing ...
... cause to be , " to import a formation from a sub- stance already in existence , we have sufficient proof that it was also under- stood of old to import emphatically , like our own word " create , ” an absolute formation out of nothing ...
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... cause ; himself immaterial , self - existent , eternal , and alone ; and of matter the whole visible universe is composed . It is ar- ranged and regulated by an extensive code of laws , of which , however , we know but a few ; and which ...
... cause ; himself immaterial , self - existent , eternal , and alone ; and of matter the whole visible universe is composed . It is ar- ranged and regulated by an extensive code of laws , of which , however , we know but a few ; and which ...
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