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Reason the only oracle of man, or A compenduous [sic] system of natural religion. Alternately adorned with confutations of a variety of doctrines incompatible to it; deduced from the most exalted ideas which we are able to form of the divine and human characters, and from the universe in general. By Ethan Allen, Esq;
Allen, Ethan, 1738-1789.Date: M,DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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The wrangling philosophers; or, Volney's answer to Doctor Priestley, on his pamphlet, entitled "observations upon the increase of infidelity, with animadversions upon the writings of several modern unbelievers and especially The ruins of Mr. Volney With This Motto; Minds of little Penetration rest naturally on the Surface of Things. They do not like to pierce deep into them, for fear of Labour and Trouble; sometimes still more for fear of Truth-'' With Notes BY The Editor.
Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820.Date: 1799- Books
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To Th------s S---------rs. Sir, it is no new thing to hear men of the blackest complexion, ...
Auditor, Timothy.Date: 1776]- Books
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Reason an insufficient guide to conduct mankind in religion. Set forth in the following particulars, viz. I. Why reason is not, and revelation is, a sufficient guide, to conduct Mankind in Religion. II. The Terms Religion, Revelation, and the Light Of Nature explained. III. That there is no such Religion as the Religion of Nature, no such Light as the Light of Nature in Religion, to be allowed by Christians. IV. An Enquiry into the Nature of Reason, and that it is no such natural Perfection, absolutely such, as it passes for. V. Some instances of the religion and morality of the chief philosophers, and of the principal cities of the gentile world, that were the most Refined and Philosophical, with regard both to their Doctrines and their Practice, at the Promulgation of the Gospel. By Conyers Place
Place, Conyers, 1664 or 1665-1738.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- Books
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Thomas Paine vindicated. Being a short letter to the Bishop of Landaff's reply to Thomas Paine's Age of reason. By a Deist.
Deist.Date: [1796]