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1 I | Being of Beings; but the reason of our not using the outward 2 III | being oppressed, thou hast reason to know how hateful the 3 IV | it in Europe, for which reason he adhered so inviolably 4 V | Church of England. This reason (which carries mathematical 5 V | of France, and for this reason. All the clergy (a very 6 V | Rabelais says, and for this reason I don't trouble myself about 7 VII | handsome and convincing reason: "Since your majesty," said 8 VIII | Louis XIV. for no other reason but because he was ambitious, 9 IX | pretended right, for no other reason but because they were the 10 X | presume (not without some reason) to compare himself to a 11 XII | instituted to improve human reason from depraving it by their 12 XIII | lenghts, the people used to reason about the soul in the very 13 XIII | satisfied with anything but reason.~With regard to the Fathers 14 XIII | be immortal or not. Human reason is so little able, merely 15 XIII | this manner do the schools reason.~Mr. Locke addressed these 16 XIII | thinking, which we call human reason? To whatever side you turn, 17 XIII | well that the objects of reason and those of faith are of 18 XIII | form a religious sect, the reason of which is, their writings 19 XIV | comparison, and for no other reason but because Descartes was 20 XIV | However, he found that reason was as much disguised and 21 XIV | indeed he possessed both. Reason at that time darted a ray 22 XIV | banished from the world. Reason alone was cultivated, and 23 XIV | mistaken in some things, the reason of that is, a man who discovers 24 XIV | two make four for no other reason by because God would have 25 XIV | his contemporaries how to reason, and enabled them to employ 26 XV | seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; 27 XV | those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it 28 XV | those laws. Moreover, the reason is evidently seen why the 29 XV | sun, exhibit a sensible reason why the ocean swells and 30 XV | attraction for no other reason but to express an effect 31 XV | because he did not know the reason why the muscles contract? 32 XV | universal, and for that very reason mankind ought to thank me 33 XVI | that he had not the least reason to maintain that it is a 34 XVI | are opaque for no other reason but because their pores 35 XVI | their order for no other reason but because they are refracted 36 XVI | nature of light.~For this reason he invented a telescope, 37 XIX | and Plautus, and for this reason because I am neither a Greek 38 XX | professions. What is the reason why our magistrates, our 39 XX | all other professions? The reason is, because their condition 40 XXI | as follows against human reason in his "Satire on Man":~" 41 XXI | know, And 'tis this very reason I despise, This supernatural 42 XXII | ablest translator? But the reason of this is, almost every 43 XXII | a blockhead. This is the reason why the works of the ingenious 44 XXIII| Julius Caesar for no other reason but because he, who was 45 XXIV | regulations as ours, the only reason of which very possibly is, 46 XXIV | these productions. If the reason should afterwards be sought,