Of the Light of Nature: A DiscourseT. Constable, 1857 - 298 pages |
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... philosophers of antiquity , as Pythagoras , Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , or of the Greek and Roman Classical Authors , or of the great Fathers of the Church , or even of the more distinguished schoolmen , such as Aquinas , Scotus ...
... philosophers of antiquity , as Pythagoras , Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , or of the Greek and Roman Classical Authors , or of the great Fathers of the Church , or even of the more distinguished schoolmen , such as Aquinas , Scotus ...
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... philosopher , resolves all his assurance into thinking that he thinks , -why not into thinking that he sees ? and why may he not be deceived in that as in any other operations ? And if there be such a virtue in reflecting and ...
... philosopher , resolves all his assurance into thinking that he thinks , -why not into thinking that he sees ? and why may he not be deceived in that as in any other operations ? And if there be such a virtue in reflecting and ...
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... philosophers had left it in such a cloudy and obscured manner , as if they had never seen nature ' face to face , ' but only ' through a glass darkly , ' 1 Cor . ii . 12 . and ' in a riddle . ' And as we read of a painter that ...
... philosophers had left it in such a cloudy and obscured manner , as if they had never seen nature ' face to face , ' but only ' through a glass darkly , ' 1 Cor . ii . 12 . and ' in a riddle . ' And as we read of a painter that ...
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... philosopher does most admirably dis- cover the prodigious folly of this opinion , and demonstrate the impossibility of it , in that excellent discourse of his , in 1 Διὰ φύσιν , διὰ τυχὴν , διὰ τέχνην . De Legibus , lib . x . Opera ...
... philosopher does most admirably dis- cover the prodigious folly of this opinion , and demonstrate the impossibility of it , in that excellent discourse of his , in 1 Διὰ φύσιν , διὰ τυχὴν , διὰ τέχνην . De Legibus , lib . x . Opera ...
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... philosopher gives as the reason of this , that they were put into verse ' that they might remember them the better ; ' 1 but why may not this reason also share with it , that they might come with a greater grace and allurement , that ...
... philosopher gives as the reason of this , that they were put into verse ' that they might remember them the better ; ' 1 but why may not this reason also share with it , that they might come with a greater grace and allurement , that ...
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