A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... sense , or those abstract creations of the mind , pure number and dimension , which em- ploy the ingenuity of mathematicians . " * * Blanco White's Internal Evidence against Cath . p . 27 . Incalculable harm is done by well - meaning ...
... sense , or those abstract creations of the mind , pure number and dimension , which em- ploy the ingenuity of mathematicians . " * * Blanco White's Internal Evidence against Cath . p . 27 . Incalculable harm is done by well - meaning ...
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... sense , distracted , who would not act , and with great application too , not only on an even chance , but upon much less , and where the proba- bility or chance was greatly against his suc- ceeding . " - Introduction to the Analogy ...
... sense , distracted , who would not act , and with great application too , not only on an even chance , but upon much less , and where the proba- bility or chance was greatly against his suc- ceeding . " - Introduction to the Analogy ...
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... sense of things , so they are capable , not only of being persuaded , but of being made to see , that there is evidence of miracles wrought in attestation of it , and many appearing comple- tions of prophecy . But though this proof is ...
... sense of things , so they are capable , not only of being persuaded , but of being made to see , that there is evidence of miracles wrought in attestation of it , and many appearing comple- tions of prophecy . But though this proof is ...
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... sense of the foregoing , men , are , most undoubtedly , responsible for their re- ligious sentiments ; though it has often been asserted in unmeasured and unrestricted terms , that they are not . * If , however , a man has really used ...
... sense of the foregoing , men , are , most undoubtedly , responsible for their re- ligious sentiments ; though it has often been asserted in unmeasured and unrestricted terms , that they are not . * If , however , a man has really used ...
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... sense of gratitude and of prudence , could possibly consider himself in the same situation , with regard to such person , as if he had no such doubt . In truth , it is as just to say , that certainty and doubt are the same , as to say ...
... sense of gratitude and of prudence , could possibly consider himself in the same situation , with regard to such person , as if he had no such doubt . In truth , it is as just to say , that certainty and doubt are the same , as to say ...
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