Christian PoliticsLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - 445 pages |
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Page v
... danger of a dissolution , from the mischievous ferments occasioned by some novel principles of political and moral phi- losophy , will , I think , readily allow , that an endeavour to prevent a return of such disorders , by leading men ...
... danger of a dissolution , from the mischievous ferments occasioned by some novel principles of political and moral phi- losophy , will , I think , readily allow , that an endeavour to prevent a return of such disorders , by leading men ...
Page 4
... dangerous in their tendency ; as , by laying a ground for disappointment , they are calculated to generate secret dis- contents , which may proceed to open mur- murs , to seditions , to rebellions , to anarchy , and ruin . Every man ...
... dangerous in their tendency ; as , by laying a ground for disappointment , they are calculated to generate secret dis- contents , which may proceed to open mur- murs , to seditions , to rebellions , to anarchy , and ruin . Every man ...
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... dangerous ascendancy before reason has acquired strength to resist its course . When the season of youth arrives , in which nature inflames the imagination , and is inflamed by it to the highest degree , the love of pleasure commonly ...
... dangerous ascendancy before reason has acquired strength to resist its course . When the season of youth arrives , in which nature inflames the imagination , and is inflamed by it to the highest degree , the love of pleasure commonly ...
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... danger of incurring the charge of libelling human nature , that the love of pleasure , the love of consequence , and the love of wealth , have been , and still are , the most prevailing passions amongst men ; and are likely so to ...
... danger of incurring the charge of libelling human nature , that the love of pleasure , the love of consequence , and the love of wealth , have been , and still are , the most prevailing passions amongst men ; and are likely so to ...
Page 30
... had more than one alarming instance in our own times and country . And as life is thus exposed to danger from human violence , so is it likewise from human inadvertence or accident ; and still more from the 30 [ PART 1 . Of the immediate.
... had more than one alarming instance in our own times and country . And as life is thus exposed to danger from human violence , so is it likewise from human inadvertence or accident ; and still more from the 30 [ PART 1 . Of the immediate.
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