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... rewards and punishments , and teaching mankind how to prepare themselves for that state , is not in itself greater than the event , call it either probable or improbable , of the two following propositions either [ 4 ]
... rewards and punishments , and teaching mankind how to prepare themselves for that state , is not in itself greater than the event , call it either probable or improbable , of the two following propositions either [ 4 ]
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... themselves , or facts strictly connected with the propofi- tions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) , ought to be reject- ed at first sight , and to be rejected by what- ever strength or complication of ...
... themselves , or facts strictly connected with the propofi- tions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) , ought to be reject- ed at first sight , and to be rejected by what- ever strength or complication of ...
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... themselves into a perfuafion , that some signal and greatly advantageous change was to be effected in the condition of their country , by the agency of a long- promifed messenger from heaven * . The rulers of the Jews , their leading ...
... themselves into a perfuafion , that some signal and greatly advantageous change was to be effected in the condition of their country , by the agency of a long- promifed messenger from heaven * . The rulers of the Jews , their leading ...
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... themselves , in those very points of comparison in which they most valued their own distinction , could be no very pleasing discovery to a Jewish mind ; nor could the messengers of fuch intelligence expect to be well received or eafily ...
... themselves , in those very points of comparison in which they most valued their own distinction , could be no very pleasing discovery to a Jewish mind ; nor could the messengers of fuch intelligence expect to be well received or eafily ...
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... themselves most upon , was a fure way of making powerful enemies . As if the frustration of the national hope was not enough , the long - esteemed merit of ritual zeal and punctuality was to be decried , and that by Jews preaching to ...
... themselves most upon , was a fure way of making powerful enemies . As if the frustration of the national hope was not enough , the long - esteemed merit of ritual zeal and punctuality was to be decried , and that by Jews preaching to ...
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