A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton].1824 |
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... religious critics , who will rail against the personal vices of Voltaire , while they countenance the wretched government and social condition which rendered them nearly those of the French people at large , gentry , who lift up their ...
... religious critics , who will rail against the personal vices of Voltaire , while they countenance the wretched government and social condition which rendered them nearly those of the French people at large , gentry , who lift up their ...
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... religious persecution ; and by that execrable union of kingcraft and priestcraft which assumes a sway over volition itself , was this sin unsparingly committed during the whole of the reign under consideration . This leads at once to ...
... religious persecution ; and by that execrable union of kingcraft and priestcraft which assumes a sway over volition itself , was this sin unsparingly committed during the whole of the reign under consideration . This leads at once to ...
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... religion ; and those who have the false glory to remain longest firm in their opinions , must be driven to the last extremities . " They were so driven , in a manner which at this time of day renders the verbal frippery with which the ...
... religion ; and those who have the false glory to remain longest firm in their opinions , must be driven to the last extremities . " They were so driven , in a manner which at this time of day renders the verbal frippery with which the ...
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... religion , aping devotion , and grinning with horrible levity at the extreme of conscientious human suffering . One dismisses the subject as Hamlet throws down the skull - Pah ! What calm man , of any or of no religion xxiv PREFACE .
... religion , aping devotion , and grinning with horrible levity at the extreme of conscientious human suffering . One dismisses the subject as Hamlet throws down the skull - Pah ! What calm man , of any or of no religion xxiv PREFACE .
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Voltaire. What calm man , of any or of no religion , can now hear of them without shuddering and execra- tion ? and what such feel now , it is reasonable to suppose that a mind predisposed like that of Voltaire must have felt then . It ...
Voltaire. What calm man , of any or of no religion , can now hear of them without shuddering and execra- tion ? and what such feel now , it is reasonable to suppose that a mind predisposed like that of Voltaire must have felt then . It ...
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Page 368 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 221 - Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
Page 24 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 183 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 22 - And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon : therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife : and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister : that it may be well with me for thy sake ; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Page 231 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Page 124 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron ; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Page 153 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 290 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 124 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.