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A considerable number of Voltaire's deistical ejaculations, and on these occasions he threw into them a measure of real unction, may be fairly traced to the extraordinary polemical utility of an idea of spotless purity, entire justice, inexhaustible mercy, as an engine of battle against men who in the sacred name of this idea were the great practitioners of intolerance and wrong.

Voltaire 2007

There is scarcely one of these attributes to which, when it comes to be definitely described, he does not encounter affronting contradiction in the real occurrences that arise from time to time to search and try all our theories, deistical, or other.

Voltaire 2007

It is unjust, however, to attribute to Voltaire himself a perfect adherence to the deistical idea.

Voltaire 2007

He plunged into the field of theology, and mastered that famous deistical controversy, of which the seed had been sown in the first half of the seventeenth century by Lord

Voltaire 2007

Lafitau quoted an earlier deistical work, Guedeville's

Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968

When this colloquy appeared as a deistical essay in several American newspapers, it inspired Benjamin

Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968

It is this strong grasp or the imperfect character of our knowledge of nature and of the grounds for its limitation that makes Butler so formidable an opponent to his deistical contemporaries.

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Paris admires her deistical authors and makes them the objects of hero-worship.

The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger

I found no new deistical books, the subject has already been exhausted, and every Frenchman is a philosopher now; it may be necessary here to recollect, that there are gradations in philosophy.

A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 Richard Twiss

It was intended as a defence against the great tide of deistical speculation (see DEISM), which in the apprehension of many good men seemed likely to sweep away the restraints of religion and make way for a general reign of licence.

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