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... shall under any circum- " stances repent . Many temperaments and " explanations there would have been , if I had " ever had a notion that it should meet the " publick eye . " In the mean time a large impression , amount- ing , it is ...
... shall under any circum- " stances repent . Many temperaments and " explanations there would have been , if I had " ever had a notion that it should meet the " publick eye . " In the mean time a large impression , amount- ing , it is ...
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... shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and infifting that he is neither just nor good ? Such are the doctrines which , fometimes concealed , fometimes openly and fully avowed , are found to ...
... shall increase our piety , and our reliance on God , by exploding his providence , and infifting that he is neither just nor good ? Such are the doctrines which , fometimes concealed , fometimes openly and fully avowed , are found to ...
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... shall call natural fociety . Thus far nature went and fucceeded ; but man would go farther . The great errour of our nature is , not to know where to stop , not to be satisfied with any reafon- able acquirement ; not to compound with ...
... shall call natural fociety . Thus far nature went and fucceeded ; but man would go farther . The great errour of our nature is , not to know where to stop , not to be satisfied with any reafon- able acquirement ; not to compound with ...
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... shall perpe- tually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are other wife enlight- ened ...
... shall perpe- tually relapse , whilst the real productive cause of all this superstitious folly , enthusiastical nonsense , and holy tyranny , holds a reverend place in the estimation even of those who are other wife enlight- ened ...
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... shall see this conqueror , the oldest we have on the re- cords of history , ( though , as we have observed be- fore , the chronology of these remote times is ex- tremely uncertain ) opening the scene by a deftruc- tion of at least one ...
... shall see this conqueror , the oldest we have on the re- cords of history , ( though , as we have observed be- fore , the chronology of these remote times is ex- tremely uncertain ) opening the scene by a deftruc- tion of at least one ...
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