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... truth , were the object of all his ftudies , and his ambition was to be useful to mankind ; with these views , he extended his researches to all languages , nations , and times . Such were the motives that induced him to propose to the ...
... truth , were the object of all his ftudies , and his ambition was to be useful to mankind ; with these views , he extended his researches to all languages , nations , and times . Such were the motives that induced him to propose to the ...
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... truth of the Chriftian religion , and he justly deemed it no incon- fiderable advantage , that his researches had corroborated the multiplied evidence of revelation , by confirming the Mofaic account of the pri- mitive world . We all ...
... truth of the Chriftian religion , and he justly deemed it no incon- fiderable advantage , that his researches had corroborated the multiplied evidence of revelation , by confirming the Mofaic account of the pri- mitive world . We all ...
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... truth few sciences , in which he had not acquired con- fiderable proficiency ; in moft , his knowledge was profound . The theory of music was familiar to him ; nor had he neglected to make himself acquainted with the interefting ...
... truth few sciences , in which he had not acquired con- fiderable proficiency ; in moft , his knowledge was profound . The theory of music was familiar to him ; nor had he neglected to make himself acquainted with the interefting ...
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... truth a word merely relative , and , though commonly used in Europe , conveys no very diftinct idea . If now it be asked , what are the intended objects of our inquiries within these spacious limits , we anfwer , MAN and NATURE ...
... truth a word merely relative , and , though commonly used in Europe , conveys no very diftinct idea . If now it be asked , what are the intended objects of our inquiries within these spacious limits , we anfwer , MAN and NATURE ...
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... truth unadorned by rhetorick ; and , although we must be conscious of our fuperior advancement in all kinds of useful knowledge , yet we ought not therefore to contemn the people of Asia , from whose researches into nature , works of ...
... truth unadorned by rhetorick ; and , although we must be conscious of our fuperior advancement in all kinds of useful knowledge , yet we ought not therefore to contemn the people of Asia , from whose researches into nature , works of ...
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