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What a fpeftacle for reafon, fhould all the learned, who have bewildered themfelves with diflFerent fyftems, meet together, and this fame Reafon, after having kept incogfiito, come and enlighten them with its rays!
Interesting letters of the late Pope Clement XIV. (Ganganelli.) 1777
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Reafon, that is plac'd For man's director, is his chief afiii£tor:
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UPon the coming out of a Book Entitled Reafon of State; there happeivd a warm Difpute in the Cabinet of a Great Prince, upon that Subject.
Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692
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But however give me leave to wonder again, that Men, who in other Refpefts, feem to want no due Senfe of the Ex - cellency of humane Nature, and are indeed fo jealous of the Dignity of their Souls, as not to allow Beafts to fhare with them in that Reafon which is made their Character and Privilege,
An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for ... 1704
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Reafon, we have faid, is the ability of dedudng unknown truths firom prxnciple* or propofitions - that are already known.
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Reafon, religion and the maxims of true policy, confpire to demand the abolition of the latter, with equal propriety, as they would have perfuaded the annihilation of the for? ner, were it poffible that fuch flagrant injuftice had ever found place among civi - lized nations.
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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Wife, and Merciful therefore is God, who knowing how infenfible our Nature is to fuch refined notions, has been pleafed not only to inftruft our Reafon in what our Duty confifts, but moreover incites us to the difcharge of it, by the raoft power* ful motives of paflion, and affection.
Sermons: By the Late Right Reverend John Hinchliffe, ... ... John Hinchliffe 1796
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They therefore who maintain, the infallibility of Reafon, and think it fiiffictent, to guide us to a ftate of immor - tality, and happinefs, over-rate its excels lence.
Sermons: By the Late Right Reverend John Hinchliffe, ... ... John Hinchliffe 1796
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Reafon, the future and the confequence. sflSAT oir MAir.
Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic: Vis. Essay on Man Alexander Pope , Helen Maria Williams 1796
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Reafon is congenial with faith, and even fcience gives her fanftion to revealed truth* Aftronomy and Chronology, applied to the Sacred Hiftory are, happily fabfervient to eftablifti the b 2 belief XX PREFACE. belief of a wife, merciful, and juft Providence fupcrin - tending the Univerfe.
Analysis of researches into the origin and progress of historical time Walker, Robert, fl. 1796. [from old catalog] 1796
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