The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things, Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History : with an Appendix ...The author, 1848 - 328 pages |
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Page 11
... Religion , a subject of more importance than all other things combined , the advisers are legion , and as various and distinct in some non - essential par- ticulars , as the lines of latitude and longitude . Secta- rian walls tower to ...
... Religion , a subject of more importance than all other things combined , the advisers are legion , and as various and distinct in some non - essential par- ticulars , as the lines of latitude and longitude . Secta- rian walls tower to ...
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... religion ; than the talents of an angel could accomplish without them . To know what , how , and when to advise ; is a matter too little understood , and less practised . If we wish the seed sown to take root , we must mellow the soil ...
... religion ; than the talents of an angel could accomplish without them . To know what , how , and when to advise ; is a matter too little understood , and less practised . If we wish the seed sown to take root , we must mellow the soil ...
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... religion . It is less exposed to temptations , calculated to lead frail men from the paths of virtue . If multitudes , who are hard run to get bread , would leave our pent up cities , and occupy and improve the millions of fine land in ...
... religion . It is less exposed to temptations , calculated to lead frail men from the paths of virtue . If multitudes , who are hard run to get bread , would leave our pent up cities , and occupy and improve the millions of fine land in ...
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... age and clime . As a system of Morals and Religion , every effort of man , to add to its transcendent beauty , or omnipotent strength , is presumption , and as vain , as an attempt to bind the wind , or imprison the BIBLE . 21.
... age and clime . As a system of Morals and Religion , every effort of man , to add to its transcendent beauty , or omnipotent strength , is presumption , and as vain , as an attempt to bind the wind , or imprison the BIBLE . 21.
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... religion ; the donations of the former are as offensive to Heaven , as the ser- mons of the latter . They may both do good , but the one , being based on selfish pride , and the other on duplicity , neither the man nor the devil , are ...
... religion ; the donations of the former are as offensive to Heaven , as the ser- mons of the latter . They may both do good , but the one , being based on selfish pride , and the other on duplicity , neither the man nor the devil , are ...
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