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" Platonists endeavoured to reconcile the jarring interests of reason and piety. They have left us the most sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of the first cause; but, as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 51
by Edward Gibbon - 1806
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Crusoe, written by himself [by D. Defoe

Daniel Defoe - 1815 - 602 pages
...workman in the stoical philosophy was nol sufficiently distinguished from the work ; whilst, on Ihe contrary, the spiritual god of PLATO and his disciples, resembled an idea rather than a substance. TACITUB has characterized in a few words the principles of the portico ; doctora lapicntiac Kcutts...
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Theological Institutes: Or, A View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and ...

Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1831 - 458 pages
...sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of the First Cause ; but as it was impossible fot them while, on the contrary, the spiritual God of Plato and his disciph-s resembled more an idea than a...
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The History of Greece from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1833

William Hendry Stowell - Greece - 1848 - 400 pages
...sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of the First Cause ; but as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman in...philosophy was not sufficiently distinguished from the works ; whilst, on the contrary, the spiritual god of Plato and his disciples resembled an idea, rather...
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Theological Institutes: Or, A View of the Evidences, Doctrines ..., Volume 1

Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1848 - 676 pages
...matter, the workman, in the Stoic philosophy, was not sufficiently distinguished from the work ; white on the contrary, the spiritual God of Plato and his disciples resembled more an idea than a substance." (Decline and Fall, 'Sfc.) Similar errors have been revived in the infidel...
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Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity: Delivered at the University of ...

William Henry Ruffner - Apologetics - 1852 - 692 pages
...sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of the First Cause ; but as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman in...philosophy was not sufficiently distinguished from the work ; while, on the contrary, the spiritual god of Plato and his disciples resembled an idea, rather than...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of the first cause ; but, as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman in...modest science of the former induced them to doubt, the positive ignorance of the latter urged them to deny, the providence of a Supreme Ruler. The spirit...
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Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations: Demonstrating the ...

Robert Hare - Spiritualism - 1855 - 484 pages
...matter, the workmen in the Stoic philosophy was not sufficiently distinguished from the work, while, on the contrary, the spiritual God of Plato and his...and Epicureans were of a less religious cast • but while the modest science of the former induced them to doubt, the positive ignorance of the latter...
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Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations: Demonstrating the ...

Robert Hare - Bible and spiritualism - 1855 - 556 pages
...matter, the workmen in the Stoic philosophy was not sufficiently distinguished from the work, while, on the contrary, the spiritual God of Plato and his...idea rather than a substance. The opinions of the Academies and Epicureans were of a less religious cast; but while the modest science of the former...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 668 pages
...first cause ; but, as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman m the Stoic philosophy was not sufficiently distinguished...disciples resembled an idea, rather than a substance. The opmions of the Academics and Epicureans were of a less religious cast : but whilst the modest science...
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 2

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1900 - 716 pages
...sublime proofs of the existence and perfections of the first cause; but, as it was impossible for them to conceive the creation of matter, the workman in...philosophy was not sufficiently distinguished from the work ; while, on the contrary, the spiritual God of Plato and his disciples resembled an idea rather than...
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