A View of the Evidences of Christianity in Three Parts and the Horae Paulinae |
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... facts occasionally mentioned or referred to in Scripture , with the state of things in those times , as repre- sented by foreign and independent accounts • Undesigned coincidences . CHAPTER VII . . 269 295 CHAPTER VIII . 298 Of the ...
... facts occasionally mentioned or referred to in Scripture , with the state of things in those times , as repre- sented by foreign and independent accounts • Undesigned coincidences . CHAPTER VII . . 269 295 CHAPTER VIII . 298 Of the ...
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... facts , might in this way be assailed , by showing that they are in many respects very improbable . The history , for instance , of Napoleon Buonaparte has been shown to contain a much greater amount of . gross and glaring ...
... facts , might in this way be assailed , by showing that they are in many respects very improbable . The history , for instance , of Napoleon Buonaparte has been shown to contain a much greater amount of . gross and glaring ...
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... facts , & c . They presup- pose that vigour of understanding may consist with feebleness of reason ; and that the power of discriminating between religious truth and error does not depend chiefly on the culture or on the exercise of the ...
... facts , & c . They presup- pose that vigour of understanding may consist with feebleness of reason ; and that the power of discriminating between religious truth and error does not depend chiefly on the culture or on the exercise of the ...
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... facts strictly connected with the propositions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) ... fact is then only contrary to experience , when the fact is related to have existed at a time and place , at which time and ...
... facts strictly connected with the propositions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) ... fact is then only contrary to experience , when the fact is related to have existed at a time and place , at which time and ...
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... fact in question , that no such thing was ever experi- enced , or that universal experience is against it , is to assume the subject of the controversy . Now the improbability which arises from the want ( for this properly is a want ...
... fact in question , that no such thing was ever experi- enced , or that universal experience is against it , is to assume the subject of the controversy . Now the improbability which arises from the want ( for this properly is a want ...
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