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... opinions and practices , as well as from mistaken in- terest , which the first preachers of Christianity had to encounter ; not to mention the universal contempt and detestation where- in the nation to which they belonged was holden ...
... opinions and practices , as well as from mistaken in- terest , which the first preachers of Christianity had to encounter ; not to mention the universal contempt and detestation where- in the nation to which they belonged was holden ...
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... opinion , cannot justly be re- fused him . As a compiler of history , it must be admitted , that in every instance in which his account , on a fair examination , is found to contradict the account given in holy writ , he is en- titled ...
... opinion , cannot justly be re- fused him . As a compiler of history , it must be admitted , that in every instance in which his account , on a fair examination , is found to contradict the account given in holy writ , he is en- titled ...
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... opinion of him , more fully , in the third pre- liminary dissertation to the translation of the Gospels , to which I refer you . As to his work , I may justly say , that on the whole , with all its errors and defects , ( and what human ...
... opinion of him , more fully , in the third pre- liminary dissertation to the translation of the Gospels , to which I refer you . As to his work , I may justly say , that on the whole , with all its errors and defects , ( and what human ...
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... opinions , that might be laid be- fore you , would be of little value , if it were the result of a lazy and implicit confidence , and not of a careful examination and rational conviction . Let me only subjoin , before dismiss- ing this ...
... opinions , that might be laid be- fore you , would be of little value , if it were the result of a lazy and implicit confidence , and not of a careful examination and rational conviction . Let me only subjoin , before dismiss- ing this ...
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... opinion as to the particular per- sons proper to be chosen , he would have judged it fitter to exempt the persons from a charge which might , in some re- spects , appear foreign from their office , than to recommend them to it . The ...
... opinion as to the particular per- sons proper to be chosen , he would have judged it fitter to exempt the persons from a charge which might , in some re- spects , appear foreign from their office , than to recommend them to it . The ...
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