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... To support this proposition , two points are necessary to be made out first , that the founder of the institution , his associates and immediate followers , acted the part which the proposition imputes to them : secondly , that they did.
... To support this proposition , two points are necessary to be made out first , that the founder of the institution , his associates and immediate followers , acted the part which the proposition imputes to them : secondly , that they did.
Page 38
... institution and of those who were joined with him in the undertaking , or we are driven upon the strange supposition , that , although they might lie by , others would take it up ; although they were quiet and silent , other persons ...
... institution and of those who were joined with him in the undertaking , or we are driven upon the strange supposition , that , although they might lie by , others would take it up ; although they were quiet and silent , other persons ...
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... institution above the rest of the world , was to advance those whom they despised to an equality with themselves , in those very points of comparison in which they most valued their own distinction , could be no very pleas- ing ...
... institution above the rest of the world , was to advance those whom they despised to an equality with themselves , in those very points of comparison in which they most valued their own distinction , could be no very pleas- ing ...
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... institution which they preached to others , they conformed to in their own . persons ; because this is no more than what every teacher of a new religion both does , and must do , in order to obtain either proselytes or hearers . The ...
... institution which they preached to others , they conformed to in their own . persons ; because this is no more than what every teacher of a new religion both does , and must do , in order to obtain either proselytes or hearers . The ...
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... institution throughout the country in which it began , and into which it was first carried ; that , in the prose- cution of this purpose , they underwent the labors and troubles which we observe the propagators of new sects to undergo ...
... institution throughout the country in which it began , and into which it was first carried ; that , in the prose- cution of this purpose , they underwent the labors and troubles which we observe the propagators of new sects to undergo ...
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