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... authority of government . Add to which , that the religious systems of those times , however ill supported by evidence , had been long established . The ancient religion of a country has always many votaries , and sometimes not the ...
... authority of government . Add to which , that the religious systems of those times , however ill supported by evidence , had been long established . The ancient religion of a country has always many votaries , and sometimes not the ...
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... authority , but must dis- grace all the settled religions of the world ? It was not to be imagined that he would endure with patience , that the religion of the emperor and of the state should be calumniated and borne down by a company ...
... authority , but must dis- grace all the settled religions of the world ? It was not to be imagined that he would endure with patience , that the religion of the emperor and of the state should be calumniated and borne down by a company ...
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... authority , was concerned in its first success , I should conclude , from the very nature and exigency of the case , that the Author of the religion , during his life , and his immediate disciples after his death , exerted themselves in ...
... authority , was concerned in its first success , I should conclude , from the very nature and exigency of the case , that the Author of the religion , during his life , and his immediate disciples after his death , exerted themselves in ...
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... authority . For , from Pliny's doubt how he was to act , his silence con- cerning any subsisting law on the subject , his request- ing the emperor's rescript , and the emperor , agreeably to his request , propounding a rule for his ...
... authority . For , from Pliny's doubt how he was to act , his silence con- cerning any subsisting law on the subject , his request- ing the emperor's rescript , and the emperor , agreeably to his request , propounding a rule for his ...
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... authority for what he said , and contrary to the truth of the case ; or that , although Christ had never foretold any such thing , and the event would have contradicted him if he had , yet historians , who lived in the age when the ...
... authority for what he said , and contrary to the truth of the case ; or that , although Christ had never foretold any such thing , and the event would have contradicted him if he had , yet historians , who lived in the age when the ...
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