Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and Others: Held in Cephalonia, a Short Time Previous to His Lordship's Death |
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... rejecting this point , and another that ) ; and though , in general , they seemed to take a pleasure in raising objections against all the peculiar doctrines of revelation , except the moral precepts delivered by our Saviour , yet those ...
... rejecting this point , and another that ) ; and though , in general , they seemed to take a pleasure in raising objections against all the peculiar doctrines of revelation , except the moral precepts delivered by our Saviour , yet those ...
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... rejected it , must do so from igno- rance , misapprehension , or prejudice , in violation of every rule of logical reasoning . The Christianity , I said , which in the present discus- sion I undertake to defend , and to which alone all ...
... rejected it , must do so from igno- rance , misapprehension , or prejudice , in violation of every rule of logical reasoning . The Christianity , I said , which in the present discus- sion I undertake to defend , and to which alone all ...
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... rejected it . In reality , however , I must observe , that these pre- sumptions are not strictly equivalent that in favour of Christianity preponderates : for , in the first place 2 WITH LORD BYRON . 25 expressed in uninspired language ...
... rejected it . In reality , however , I must observe , that these pre- sumptions are not strictly equivalent that in favour of Christianity preponderates : for , in the first place 2 WITH LORD BYRON . 25 expressed in uninspired language ...
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... reject and despise a system of precepts and doctrines are likely to study them more than those who believe and love them . « Dismissing , therefore , from our view what Christi- anity is , as derived from the writings and lives of ...
... reject and despise a system of precepts and doctrines are likely to study them more than those who believe and love them . « Dismissing , therefore , from our view what Christi- anity is , as derived from the writings and lives of ...
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... rejected Christianity , as a proof , that men of the first capacities and endowments , and well qualified to judge , had found the evidence for it unsa- tisfactory . I said , " that this was a common objection , and , to a superficial ...
... rejected Christianity , as a proof , that men of the first capacities and endowments , and well qualified to judge , had found the evidence for it unsa- tisfactory . I said , " that this was a common objection , and , to a superficial ...
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