Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and Others: Held in Cephalonia, a Short Time Previous to His Lordship's Death |
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... ignorant of the true nature of the Christian doctrines , that this time would be requisite to convey to them an accurate idea of those principles , and of the evidence on which they were founded . This arrangement , » I said , " would ...
... ignorant of the true nature of the Christian doctrines , that this time would be requisite to convey to them an accurate idea of those principles , and of the evidence on which they were founded . This arrangement , » I said , " would ...
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... ignorant , that no other way of over- coming the difficulty presented itself , than by their giving their undivided attention to what was said . I requested them , for the first hour , not to consider them- selves as disputants in the ...
... ignorant , that no other way of over- coming the difficulty presented itself , than by their giving their undivided attention to what was said . I requested them , for the first hour , not to consider them- selves as disputants in the ...
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... ignorance be removed ; and they would be prepared with more impartiality to decide upon the combination of the whole evidence , both ex- ternal and internal . I told them that I did not undertake to make them real Christians : this was ...
... ignorance be removed ; and they would be prepared with more impartiality to decide upon the combination of the whole evidence , both ex- ternal and internal . I told them that I did not undertake to make them real Christians : this was ...
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... ignorance , the follies , crimes , and controversies of the middle ages , when we learn that the Scriptures had almost disappeared from among them ; and when the reading of them , where they could be found , was prohibited by authority ...
... ignorance , the follies , crimes , and controversies of the middle ages , when we learn that the Scriptures had almost disappeared from among them ; and when the reading of them , where they could be found , was prohibited by authority ...
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... ignorant and fa- natic , there is left an immense multitude in every age and nation , thousands of whom have been eminent by their rank or station , by their talents , and judgment , and by the practice of every virtue , whose testimony ...
... ignorant and fa- natic , there is left an immense multitude in every age and nation , thousands of whom have been eminent by their rank or station , by their talents , and judgment , and by the practice of every virtue , whose testimony ...
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