 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...Boyle's lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them. For the arguments of the Deists which were...thorough Deist. My arguments perverted some others, particnlarly Collins and Ralph : but each of these having wronged me greatly without the least compunction;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...Boyle's lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them. For the arguments of the Deists which were...stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a rough Deist. My arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph: but each of these... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1834 - 500 pages
...Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them. For the arguments of the Deists which were...recollecting Keith's conduct towards me, who was another free thinker, and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...Boyle's lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them ; for the arguments of the Deists which were...greatly without the least compunction; and recollecting Keith s conduct towards me, (who was another freethinker,) and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...produced in him the very opposite effect to that intended by the writer, and he became a confirmed Deist : — " My arguments perverted some others,...(who was another freethinker,) and my own towards Vcruon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to impect thai this doctrine, t/ionyk... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...Boyle's lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me, quite contrary to what was intended by them. For the arguments of the deists, which were...least compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct toward me [he was another freethinker], and my own toward Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them. For the arguments of the Deists, which were...compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct towards ine (who was another freethinker), and my own towards Veruon and Miss Head, — which at times gave... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them ; for the arguments of the Deists, which were...others, particularly Collins and Ralph ; but each of those having wronged me greatly, without the least compunction, and, recollecting Keith's conduct towards... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1855 - 522 pages
...happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was in.ST. 21.] HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. tended by them. For the arguments of the Deists, which...another freethinker), and my own towards Vernon and Miss Bead. — which at times gave me great trouble, — I began to suspect that this doctrine, though it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them. For the arguments of the Deists, which were...arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Kalph ; but, each of these having wronged me greatly without the least compunction, and recollecting... | |
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Some books against Deism fell into my hands; they were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's Lectures. It happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which... 
