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... follow truth , will ( what- ever he lights on ) not miss the hunter's fatisfaction ; every moment of his purfuit will reward his pains with fome delight , and he will have reafon to think his time not ill - spent , even when he cannot ...
... follow truth , will ( what- ever he lights on ) not miss the hunter's fatisfaction ; every moment of his purfuit will reward his pains with fome delight , and he will have reafon to think his time not ill - spent , even when he cannot ...
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... follow my example ) my book would , it feems , be the more to your lordship's liking ; but I do not fee how this would one jot abate the mifchief your lordship complains of . For the unitarians might as much employ notions , as they do ...
... follow my example ) my book would , it feems , be the more to your lordship's liking ; but I do not fee how this would one jot abate the mifchief your lordship complains of . For the unitarians might as much employ notions , as they do ...
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... follow his own thoughts in the fearch of truth , when they lead him ever fo little out of the common road ; I fhall fet down the reafons , that made me doubt of the truth of that opinion , as an excufe for my mistake , if I be in one ...
... follow his own thoughts in the fearch of truth , when they lead him ever fo little out of the common road ; I fhall fet down the reafons , that made me doubt of the truth of that opinion , as an excufe for my mistake , if I be in one ...
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... follow , that these principles may be made more evident to us by others teaching , than nature has made them by impres fion ; which will ill agree with the opinion of innate principles , and give but little authority to them ; but , on ...
... follow , that these principles may be made more evident to us by others teaching , than nature has made them by impres fion ; which will ill agree with the opinion of innate principles , and give but little authority to them ; but , on ...
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... follows not , in this life , the breach of this rule ; and confequently , that it has not the force of a law in countries , where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it , is in itfelf evident . But thefe ideas ( which muft be ...
... follows not , in this life , the breach of this rule ; and confequently , that it has not the force of a law in countries , where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it , is in itfelf evident . But thefe ideas ( which muft be ...
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