 God permitted the trial to be made. In one country, and that the centre of Christendom, revelation underwent a total eclipse,* while atheism, performing on a darkened theatre its strange and fearful tragedy, confounded the first elements of society, blended...  The Quarterly Review (london) - Page 121by Anonymous - 1832 - 294 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1801 - 428 pages
...the temples of God, abolished his worship, and proclaimed death to be an eternal sleep:—in the very centre of Christendom, Revelation underwent a total...to consider religion as the pillar of society, the parent of social order, and the safe-guard of nations f." . , . Reign of It is wonderful that, amid... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1814 - 312 pages
...and fearful tragedy, confounded the first• elements of society, blended every age, rank and sect, in indiscriminate proscription and massacre, and convulsed...religion as the pillar of society, the safeguard of nations, the parent of social order, which alone has power to curb the fury of the passions, and secure... | |
 | Hibernian Sunday school society - 1818 - 616 pages
...theatre its strange and fearful tragedy, confounded the first elements fef society, blended every age and sex in indiscriminate proscription and massacre,...all Europe to its centre,— that the imperishable memoHal of these events might tcuo the last generation of mankind to. considci religion as the pillar... | |
 | 610 pages
...darkened theatre its strange and fearful tragedy, confounded the first elements of society, hlcnded every age, rank, and sex in indiscriminate proscription...religion as the pillar of society, the safeguard of nations, (lie parent of social order, which alone has power to curb the fury of the passions, and secure... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...but the profession, and disgust with its restraints, lent a favourable ear to these pretensions. Go permitted the trial to be made. In one country, and...religion as the pillar of society, the safeguard of nations, the parent of social order, which alone has power to curb the fury of the passions, and secure... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 634 pages
...\ve should have continued to enjoy,- without reflecting on its cause, but for for the developement of deistical principles, and the experiment which...religion as the pillar of society, the safeguard of nations, the parent of social order, which alone has power to curb the fury of the passions, and secure... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 660 pages
...be made. In one country, and that the centre of Christendom, revelation underwent a total eclipse,t while atheism, performing on a darkened theatre its...religion as the pillar of society, the safeguard of nations, the parent of social order, which alone has power to curb the fury of the passions, and secure... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 542 pages
...and laments the extinction of religion in France. " We have," says he, " in proscribing suatheism, . performing on a darkened theatre its strange and fearful...religion as the pillar of society, the safeguard of nations, the parent of social order, which alone has power to curb the fury of the passions, and secure... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 542 pages
...strange and fearful tragedy, confounded the first elements of society, blended every age, rank, and gex, in indiscriminate proscription and massacre, and convulsed...religion as the pillar of society, the safeguard of nations, the parent of social order, which alone has power to curb the fury of the passions, and secure... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 84 pages
...retaining little of religion but the profesF sion, and disgusted with its restraints, lent a favorable ear to these pretensions. God permitted the trial...last generations of mankind to consider religion as tho pillar of society, the safeguard of nations, the parent of social order, which alone has power... | |
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