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"The primævity and preeminence of the sacred Hebrew, above all other languages, vindicated from the repeated attempts of the Reverend Dr. Hunt to level it with the Arabic, and other oriental dialects; in a letter to a friend. With a word in the preface to Dr. Shuckford. By Benjamin Holloway, LL.B."
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Date: 1754
"[I]f Knowledge had broke in upon [Adam] too fast, it would have overwhelm'd, and depress'd him; so that, as in the Case of some intolerable Load laid upon the Body, his Mind must have sunk under the Weight of it"
preview | full record— Holloway, Benjamin (1690/1-1759)
Date: 1754
"And so Dr. Edwards remarks of Socinus, that Adam, according to Him, had only the Faculty of Understanding, but none of the Accomplishments of it: His Mind being a pure rasa tabula, capable indeed of any Impressions, but having no Characters of Wisdom engraven upon it, by the Finger of God, when ...
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