A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... reason first began to throw off the yoke of authority , and when it ... age , in which the tendency of fashionable opinions is directly opposite to ... reason for hoping , that the sceptical tendency of the present age , will be only a ...
... reason first began to throw off the yoke of authority , and when it ... age , in which the tendency of fashionable opinions is directly opposite to ... reason for hoping , that the sceptical tendency of the present age , will be only a ...
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... Age of Reason , " a sober investigation of Christian truth ? With fame , public influence , profit , the chance of wealth , perhaps of the highest reach of revolutionary ambition before his eye , who could suppose Paine to 62 RELIGIOUS ...
... Age of Reason , " a sober investigation of Christian truth ? With fame , public influence , profit , the chance of wealth , perhaps of the highest reach of revolutionary ambition before his eye , who could suppose Paine to 62 RELIGIOUS ...
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... reason , Like sweet bells jangled , out of tune and harsh ! " * " There is , I think , good reason for hoping that the sceptical tendency of the present age will be only a temporary evil . While it continues , however , it is an evil of ...
... reason , Like sweet bells jangled , out of tune and harsh ! " * " There is , I think , good reason for hoping that the sceptical tendency of the present age will be only a temporary evil . While it continues , however , it is an evil of ...
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... Age of Reason ; " a treatise brief , and easy to be obtained ; scarcely , if , inferior to the giant Watson . West , Gilbert , Esq.— “ Observations on the History APPENDIX . 161.
... Age of Reason ; " a treatise brief , and easy to be obtained ; scarcely , if , inferior to the giant Watson . West , Gilbert , Esq.— “ Observations on the History APPENDIX . 161.
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... Age of Reason : " where his Lordship most powerfully and truly contrasts the faith of such as Newton , and Locke , and Boyle , and Milton , with the malicious ignorance of that desperate unbeliever . " It seems , gentlemen , ” said he ...
... Age of Reason : " where his Lordship most powerfully and truly contrasts the faith of such as Newton , and Locke , and Boyle , and Milton , with the malicious ignorance of that desperate unbeliever . " It seems , gentlemen , ” said he ...
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