Christian PoliticsLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - 445 pages |
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Page 39
... practice with the most cele- brated republics of antiquity , and notwith- standing the greater light and liberty of the present times , is still a practice ; which , how- ever , we have reason to believe is drawing towards a close , if ...
... practice with the most cele- brated republics of antiquity , and notwith- standing the greater light and liberty of the present times , is still a practice ; which , how- ever , we have reason to believe is drawing towards a close , if ...
Page 44
... practice , of former ages . If men could have been taught wisdom by past example , by this time they would have learned , first , in respect to truth , to have sought it , though without a super- stitious attachment , yet not without a ...
... practice , of former ages . If men could have been taught wisdom by past example , by this time they would have learned , first , in respect to truth , to have sought it , though without a super- stitious attachment , yet not without a ...
Page 47
... practice , which is evidently impossible , there would yet remain , as will easily be con- ceived , numberless ways of conveying in- sult , which the formality of respect would only render still more provoking . Human nature is a ...
... practice , which is evidently impossible , there would yet remain , as will easily be con- ceived , numberless ways of conveying in- sult , which the formality of respect would only render still more provoking . Human nature is a ...
Page 117
... practice of vice by the bad example and temptations of the christians , and by the new and unknown allurements they brought them . From these premises they deduce this conclusion , that men may lead a virtuous life , from the mere light ...
... practice of vice by the bad example and temptations of the christians , and by the new and unknown allurements they brought them . From these premises they deduce this conclusion , that men may lead a virtuous life , from the mere light ...
Page 126
... practice ? ) of those duties we owe one to another , and therefore supposes the formation of societies . " A man , " says he , " born in a desert isle , and abandoned to himself , would remain without vice and without virtue . " " What ...
... practice ? ) of those duties we owe one to another , and therefore supposes the formation of societies . " A man , " says he , " born in a desert isle , and abandoned to himself , would remain without vice and without virtue . " " What ...
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