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... opinions , but to thofe opinions upon which their hopes , their partialities , their pride , their confolation was founded . This people , with or without reafon , had worked themselves into a perfuafion , that fome fignal and greatly ...
... opinions , but to thofe opinions upon which their hopes , their partialities , their pride , their confolation was founded . This people , with or without reafon , had worked themselves into a perfuafion , that fome fignal and greatly ...
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... opinions , undoubting , and impatient of contradiction . They clung to this hope under every misfortune of their country , and with more tenacity as their dangers or calamities increafed . To find therefore that expectations fo ...
... opinions , undoubting , and impatient of contradiction . They clung to this hope under every misfortune of their country , and with more tenacity as their dangers or calamities increafed . To find therefore that expectations fo ...
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... the reformation fubverts fome reigning opinion , and does not proceed upon a change already taken place in the sentiments of a country , will not al- * Ap . 1. p . 16 , ed . Thirl . low , • low , much lefs lead us , to fuppofe [ 27 ]
... the reformation fubverts fome reigning opinion , and does not proceed upon a change already taken place in the sentiments of a country , will not al- * Ap . 1. p . 16 , ed . Thirl . low , • low , much lefs lead us , to fuppofe [ 27 ]
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... opinion which an errand so novel and ex- traordinary could not fail of exciting . I can conceive that the teachers of Christianity might both fear and fuffer much from thefe causes , without any general perfecution be- ing denounced ...
... opinion which an errand so novel and ex- traordinary could not fail of exciting . I can conceive that the teachers of Christianity might both fear and fuffer much from thefe causes , without any general perfecution be- ing denounced ...
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... opinion ; an upstart religion , in a word , which was not content with its own authority , but muft disgrace all the fettled religions of the world ? It was not to be imagined that he would endure with patience , that the religion of ...
... opinion ; an upstart religion , in a word , which was not content with its own authority , but muft disgrace all the fettled religions of the world ? It was not to be imagined that he would endure with patience , that the religion of ...
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