The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... moral evil , is the certain effect of such a creature's existence ; the next question will be , How these evils can be accounted for , consistently with the idea we have of God's moral attributes ? Therefore , 2. The second confequence ...
... moral evil , is the certain effect of such a creature's existence ; the next question will be , How these evils can be accounted for , consistently with the idea we have of God's moral attributes ? Therefore , 2. The second confequence ...
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... moral Evil is universal Good ; but introduceth it with a proper argument , to abate our wonder at the ph¿nomenon of moral Evil ; which argument he builds on a conceffion of his adversaries : If we ask you , fays he , ( from $ 140 to 150 ...
... moral Evil is universal Good ; but introduceth it with a proper argument , to abate our wonder at the ph¿nomenon of moral Evil ; which argument he builds on a conceffion of his adversaries : If we ask you , fays he , ( from $ 140 to 150 ...
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... moral evil came into the world , namely , by Man's abuse of his own free - will ; our Poet comes to the point , the confirmation of his thesis , by shewing how moral evil pro- motes good ; and employs the same conceffions of his ad ...
... moral evil came into the world , namely , by Man's abuse of his own free - will ; our Poet comes to the point , the confirmation of his thesis , by shewing how moral evil pro- motes good ; and employs the same conceffions of his ad ...
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... moral , as for nat'ral things : “ Why charge we Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? " In both , to reason right is to submit . NOTES . VER . 155. If plagues , & c . ] What hath misled some persons in this passage , is their fuppofing ...
... moral , as for nat'ral things : “ Why charge we Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? " In both , to reason right is to submit . NOTES . VER . 155. If plagues , & c . ] What hath misled some persons in this passage , is their fuppofing ...
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... moral , as for nat'ral things : Why charge we Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right is to ... moral evil in the universe , by partial natural evil in a par- ticular system . Whether partial moral evil tend ...
... moral , as for nat'ral things : Why charge we Heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right is to ... moral evil in the universe , by partial natural evil in a par- ticular system . Whether partial moral evil tend ...
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