The Works of Hannah More, Volume 10T. Cadell, 1830 |
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... adopt those of their neighbour . The Persians were not looked upon as the worst moralists for marrying their mothers , nor the Hyrcanians for not marrying at all , nor the Sogdians for mur- dering their parents , nor the Scythians for ...
... adopt those of their neighbour . The Persians were not looked upon as the worst moralists for marrying their mothers , nor the Hyrcanians for not marrying at all , nor the Sogdians for mur- dering their parents , nor the Scythians for ...
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... adopt , as a nightly expiation to the Goddess of Reason for the cruelties and carnage of the day ? Whatever conjectural notions some of the wise might entertain of a future state , the peo- ple at large could only acquire the vague and ...
... adopt , as a nightly expiation to the Goddess of Reason for the cruelties and carnage of the day ? Whatever conjectural notions some of the wise might entertain of a future state , the peo- ple at large could only acquire the vague and ...
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... adopted some ab- surdity himself , but wove it into his code . One believed that the soul was only a vapour , which was transmuted from body to body , and was to expiate , in the shape of a brute , the sins it had committed under that ...
... adopted some ab- surdity himself , but wove it into his code . One believed that the soul was only a vapour , which was transmuted from body to body , and was to expiate , in the shape of a brute , the sins it had committed under that ...
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... adopted : and , though one of the fathers observes , that " a vice sometimes gives place where a virtue does not take it , " yet the only certain symptom of the expulsion of a bad quality is the substitution of its opposite . And no man ...
... adopted : and , though one of the fathers observes , that " a vice sometimes gives place where a virtue does not take it , " yet the only certain symptom of the expulsion of a bad quality is the substitution of its opposite . And no man ...
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... adopt faith as a speculative notion , instead of the inconvenient evidences which this self - deny- ing grace involves . One would imagine , that some who so loudly insist that we shall be saved by works , must mean works of ...
... adopt faith as a speculative notion , instead of the inconvenient evidences which this self - deny- ing grace involves . One would imagine , that some who so loudly insist that we shall be saved by works , must mean works of ...
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