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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 fight , 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 fight , and to be rejected by what- ever strength or complication of ...
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... themselves moft upon , was a fure way of making powerful enemies . As if the fruftration 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 moft upon , was a fure way of making powerful enemies . As if the fruftration 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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... themselves to the heathen public . Now the first thing that ftrikes us is , that the religion they carried . with them was exclufive . It denied with- out referve the truth of every article of hea- then mythology , the existence of ...
... themselves to the heathen public . Now the first thing that ftrikes us is , that the religion they carried . with them was exclufive . It denied with- out referve the truth of every article of hea- then mythology , the existence of ...
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... themselves to conform to anything ; and are , oftentimes , amongst the foremost to procure conformity from others , by any method which they think likely to be effi- cacious . When was ever a change of reli- gion patronized by infidels ...
... themselves to conform to anything ; and are , oftentimes , amongst the foremost to procure conformity from others , by any method which they think likely to be effi- cacious . When was ever a change of reli- gion patronized by infidels ...
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