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In Three Parts ... William Paley. His that his readers knew who John was , rapid parenthetical reference to John's im prisonment , " for John was not yet caft into prifon * , " could only come from a writer whose mind was in the habit of ...
In Three Parts ... William Paley. His that his readers knew who John was , rapid parenthetical reference to John's im prisonment , " for John was not yet caft into prifon * , " could only come from a writer whose mind was in the habit of ...
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... reader in the certainty of the things which he related . Very few hiftories lie fo close to their facts ; very few hiftorians are so nearly connected with the fubject of their narrative , Why should not the candid and modeft preface of ...
... reader in the certainty of the things which he related . Very few hiftories lie fo close to their facts ; very few hiftorians are so nearly connected with the fubject of their narrative , Why should not the candid and modeft preface of ...
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... reader need not be informed that I mean the epiftle of Christ to Abgarus , King of Edeffa , found at present in the work of Eufebius * , as a piece ac- knowledged by him , though not without confiderable doubt whether the whole paffage ...
... reader need not be informed that I mean the epiftle of Christ to Abgarus , King of Edeffa , found at present in the work of Eufebius * , as a piece ac- knowledged by him , though not without confiderable doubt whether the whole paffage ...
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... particulars which compofe it . The method which I propose to myself is , first , to place before the reader , in one view , the propofitions which comprise the N 2 feveral several heads of our teftimony , and after- wards , [ 179 ]
... particulars which compofe it . The method which I propose to myself is , first , to place before the reader , in one view , the propofitions which comprise the N 2 feveral several heads of our teftimony , and after- wards , [ 179 ]
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... reader , when he has the propofitions before him , will obferve that the argument , if he fhould omit the fections , proceeds connectedly from this point . feffing feffing an authority which belonged to no other books , [ 180 ]
... reader , when he has the propofitions before him , will obferve that the argument , if he fhould omit the fections , proceeds connectedly from this point . feffing feffing an authority which belonged to no other books , [ 180 ]
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