A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... letter , written in the very height of the tumult of the circumstances above named . It is surely scarcely too much to say ; that , humanly speaking , had it not been for such impediments , Byron had been a Christian on conviction ; he ...
... letter , written in the very height of the tumult of the circumstances above named . It is surely scarcely too much to say ; that , humanly speaking , had it not been for such impediments , Byron had been a Christian on conviction ; he ...
Page 103
... letter , and not to make a dissertation . I am obliged to you for your good wishes , and more than obliged by the ex- tract from the papers of the beloved object whose qualities you have so well described in a few words . I can assure ...
... letter , and not to make a dissertation . I am obliged to you for your good wishes , and more than obliged by the ex- tract from the papers of the beloved object whose qualities you have so well described in a few words . I can assure ...
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David Bristow Baker. Interesting ! unhappy Byron ! how does this letter , written in some calm reflecting hour , amidst that sen- sual , degrading life you then were leading , unfold to us , a prospect of better things ; but alas ! a ...
David Bristow Baker. Interesting ! unhappy Byron ! how does this letter , written in some calm reflecting hour , amidst that sen- sual , degrading life you then were leading , unfold to us , a prospect of better things ; but alas ! a ...
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... not denominated me an infidel writer , on account of ten or twelve pages * " Treatise on Human Nature , " i . 467. ( Quoted in Horne's Letter to Adam Smith ) . which seem to him to have that tendency , while APPENDIX . 125.
... not denominated me an infidel writer , on account of ten or twelve pages * " Treatise on Human Nature , " i . 467. ( Quoted in Horne's Letter to Adam Smith ) . which seem to him to have that tendency , while APPENDIX . 125.
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... Letter to Adam Smith on " Hume's Philosophy . " Milner's Reply to Gibbon , part iii . sec . 12 . ( " Mr. Hume . " ) See the 3d section of Campbell's Treatise before referred to , ( " Mr. Hume gives up his favourite argu- ment " ) , of ...
... Letter to Adam Smith on " Hume's Philosophy . " Milner's Reply to Gibbon , part iii . sec . 12 . ( " Mr. Hume . " ) See the 3d section of Campbell's Treatise before referred to , ( " Mr. Hume gives up his favourite argu- ment " ) , of ...
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