The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Volume 7J. Johnson, 1809 - Great Britain |
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... age ; and because it is fair to conclude , that none were neglected of heaping up wealth in those ages , when bishops themselves were the greatest usurers . This wealth was such , that it proved a principal cause of the persecutions of ...
... age ; and because it is fair to conclude , that none were neglected of heaping up wealth in those ages , when bishops themselves were the greatest usurers . This wealth was such , that it proved a principal cause of the persecutions of ...
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... age , especially in that , when the West Indies had not been yet discovered . The abuse grew to be most exorbitant in the devout ages of the church ; that is , in the ages of greatest ignorance and superstition ; for then the clergy had ...
... age , especially in that , when the West Indies had not been yet discovered . The abuse grew to be most exorbitant in the devout ages of the church ; that is , in the ages of greatest ignorance and superstition ; for then the clergy had ...
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... ages of Rome ; but they were not directed , as they had been in those ages , to the support of civil government . The virtue of old Rome , and the spirit of her reli- gion , fainted , when her liberty expired : and they were wholly ...
... ages of Rome ; but they were not directed , as they had been in those ages , to the support of civil government . The virtue of old Rome , and the spirit of her reli- gion , fainted , when her liberty expired : and they were wholly ...
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... age . The usurpations of the religious on the civil society , the abuse of theology , and the abominable consequences of this abuse , were in part alike , and in part different ; and differently carried on , with regard to power ...
... age . The usurpations of the religious on the civil society , the abuse of theology , and the abominable consequences of this abuse , were in part alike , and in part different ; and differently carried on , with regard to power ...
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... not only out of the protection of the laws , but obnoxious to them ; and which became unnecessary and dangerous when christianity had a legal establishment , and when If we seek that age , or when the professors 24 ESSAY THE FOURTH :
... not only out of the protection of the laws , but obnoxious to them ; and which became unnecessary and dangerous when christianity had a legal establishment , and when If we seek that age , or when the professors 24 ESSAY THE FOURTH :
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Page 312 - In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 159 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Page 163 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Page 256 - Father, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Page 497 - And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
Page 510 - The gospel is in all cases one continued lesson of the strictest morality, of justice, of benevolence, and of universal charity.
Page 331 - ... another, and the same consequent fitness or unfitness of the application of different things or different relations one to another, with regard to which, the will of God always and necessarily does determine itself, to choose to act only what is agreeable to justice, equity, goodness and truth...
Page 64 - ... the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments...
Page 310 - Sed justifias primum munus est, ut ne cui quis noceat, nisi lacessitus injuria; deinde, ut communibus utatur pro communibus, privatis ut suis.
Page 401 - ... laws, but a general, and in some sort an habitual, knowledge of the manner in which God is pleased to exercise his supreme power in this system, beyond which we have no concern. We do not see the divine painter, if I may employ so low a comparison on so high a subject; but we grow...