The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 7F. and C. Rivington, 1796 |
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... affertion , ( ibid . ) that the Perfians first learned the rite of magical incan- tation from the yanquifhed Babylonians , becaufe , in every age , the Perfians were grofsly addited to the Sabian fuperftition , and the very word magie ...
... affertion , ( ibid . ) that the Perfians first learned the rite of magical incan- tation from the yanquifhed Babylonians , becaufe , in every age , the Perfians were grofsly addited to the Sabian fuperftition , and the very word magie ...
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... affertion refts are found in the enfuing chapter , and confift in Peter the wild Boy , the Ourang Outang , and the Fille Sauvage . These approaches to , or de- viations from , humanity , the author thinks , are fufficient to evince ...
... affertion refts are found in the enfuing chapter , and confift in Peter the wild Boy , the Ourang Outang , and the Fille Sauvage . These approaches to , or de- viations from , humanity , the author thinks , are fufficient to evince ...
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... affer- tion . But justice to the venerable author obliges us to confefs . that these are atoned for by a large counterbalance of ufeful diftinétions , in the most recondite fubjects of hiftory and phi- lology . Some additional volumes ...
... affer- tion . But justice to the venerable author obliges us to confefs . that these are atoned for by a large counterbalance of ufeful diftinétions , in the most recondite fubjects of hiftory and phi- lology . Some additional volumes ...
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... affertion of the Godhead of the three perfons in the Holy Trinity , whatever may be its form of external polity , becomes a cumbrous and lifelefs trunk . A union in difcipline , without a union in fundamental doc- trines , would be an ...
... affertion of the Godhead of the three perfons in the Holy Trinity , whatever may be its form of external polity , becomes a cumbrous and lifelefs trunk . A union in difcipline , without a union in fundamental doc- trines , would be an ...
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... affertion , that Atheism and Deifin properly come under the jurifdiction of the civil magistrate . In a country where Christianity is established by law , we are , at leaft , of opinion that they ought ; and a Christian writer , of ...
... affertion , that Atheism and Deifin properly come under the jurifdiction of the civil magistrate . In a country where Christianity is established by law , we are , at leaft , of opinion that they ought ; and a Christian writer , of ...
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Page 300 - Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thoroughbred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle of evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil. It is no easy operation to eradicate humanity from the human breast. What Shakespeare calls " the compunctious visitings of nature," will sometimes knock at their hearts, and protest against their murderous speculations.
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Page 668 - In recompense for so many mortifying things, which nothing but truth could have extorted from me, and which I could easily have multiplied to a greater number, I doubt not but you are so good a Christian as to return good for evil, and to flatter my vanity by telling me that all the godly in Scotland abuse me for my account of John Knox and the Reformation. I suppose you are glad to see my paper end, and that I am obliged to conclude with " Your humble servant,
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Page 650 - ... or that we ought from thence to conclude that he was not the author of them both ? You think " that law in Deuteronomy inhuman and brutal, which authorizes parents, the father and the mother, to bring their own children to have them stoned to death for what it is pleased to call stubbornness.