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... understanding perplexes itself , or makes not a sober and advantageous use of the real helps within its reach , whence manifold ignorance and inconveniences arise , he was deter- mined to employ his utmost endeavours towards restoring ...
... understanding perplexes itself , or makes not a sober and advantageous use of the real helps within its reach , whence manifold ignorance and inconveniences arise , he was deter- mined to employ his utmost endeavours towards restoring ...
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... understanding , left to itself , ought always to be suspected . But here the remedy is neither equal to the disease , nor approved ; for though the logic in use may be properly applied in civil affairs , and the arts that are founded in ...
... understanding , left to itself , ought always to be suspected . But here the remedy is neither equal to the disease , nor approved ; for though the logic in use may be properly applied in civil affairs , and the arts that are founded in ...
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... understanding , its uses , and ways of working . For our own part , from an earnest desire of truth , we have committed ourselves to doubtful , difficult , and solitary ways ; and relying on the Divine assistance , have supported our ...
... understanding , its uses , and ways of working . For our own part , from an earnest desire of truth , we have committed ourselves to doubtful , difficult , and solitary ways ; and relying on the Divine assistance , have supported our ...
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... understanding farther from them than makes their images meet ; which leaves but little work for genius and mental abilities . And the same humility that we practise in learning , the same we also observe in teaching , without ...
... understanding farther from them than makes their images meet ; which leaves but little work for genius and mental abilities . And the same humility that we practise in learning , the same we also observe in teaching , without ...
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... understanding , now cleared up , and purged of all vanity and superstition , may remain entirely subject to the divine oracles , and yield to faith , the things that are faith's : and lastly , that expelling the poisonous knowledge ...
... understanding , now cleared up , and purged of all vanity and superstition , may remain entirely subject to the divine oracles , and yield to faith , the things that are faith's : and lastly , that expelling the poisonous knowledge ...
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