Vindiciiœ Priestleianœ: an address to the students of Oxford and Cambridge; occasioned by a letter to Dr. Priestley from a person calling himself an undergraduate, but publicly and uncontradictedly ascribed to Dr. Horne, Dean of Canterbury ...J. Johnson, 1788 - 320 pages |
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... important points , which he has been called out to defend . And if I fhould not fee others exactly in the fame light with him , it will cause no breach or coolness in our friendship . For although he has no high opinion of Plato , as a ...
... important points , which he has been called out to defend . And if I fhould not fee others exactly in the fame light with him , it will cause no breach or coolness in our friendship . For although he has no high opinion of Plato , as a ...
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... Important truth not to be concealed . Offences wrongly taken at Dr. Priestley's publication of the progress of bis inquiries . Impartial inquirers have no fixed creed . Service of Dr. Priestley's writings to the cause of the gospel ...
... Important truth not to be concealed . Offences wrongly taken at Dr. Priestley's publication of the progress of bis inquiries . Impartial inquirers have no fixed creed . Service of Dr. Priestley's writings to the cause of the gospel ...
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... to form or excite the minds of youth to piety and virtue , and to affift them in their enquiries after truth ; those among them especially , who , like you , are destined B to to act important parts upon the theatre of theworld ,
... to form or excite the minds of youth to piety and virtue , and to affift them in their enquiries after truth ; those among them especially , who , like you , are destined B to to act important parts upon the theatre of theworld ,
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... important parts upon the theatre of theworld , and who must , by your fituations , do much good or much harm in it . This I profess to be my aim and ambition in these thoughts which I have publickly addreffed to you , refpecting the ...
... important parts upon the theatre of theworld , and who must , by your fituations , do much good or much harm in it . This I profess to be my aim and ambition in these thoughts which I have publickly addreffed to you , refpecting the ...
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... important , all your lives ; yet I conceive him to have written from a pure defign of serving you , and of promot- ing what he apprehends to be right . For his general character and practice befpeak him him a good man , and it appears ...
... important , all your lives ; yet I conceive him to have written from a pure defign of serving you , and of promot- ing what he apprehends to be right . For his general character and practice befpeak him him a good man , and it appears ...
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Page 13 - DOTH not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
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