The Freethinker's Magazine and Review of Theology, Politics, and Literature, Temas1-9J. Watson., 1851 |
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... believe at all till it is able to comprehend the doctrines for which its belief is demanded . Vast as are the number of sects , and diversified as are their beliefs - although all deduced from one source - all of them must acknowledge ...
... believe at all till it is able to comprehend the doctrines for which its belief is demanded . Vast as are the number of sects , and diversified as are their beliefs - although all deduced from one source - all of them must acknowledge ...
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... believe that what is good in the Bible has existed from , and is coeval with , the existence of man on this planet . This is a large class ; it is composed of men , intelligent , deeply read , industrious and persevering in their ...
... believe that what is good in the Bible has existed from , and is coeval with , the existence of man on this planet . This is a large class ; it is composed of men , intelligent , deeply read , industrious and persevering in their ...
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... believe that if they were turned out , free - trade would be turned out too , that it is no wonder in this age of lax political morality , they maintain their seat . But what arrant nonsense it is . The Whigs did not settle the free ...
... believe that if they were turned out , free - trade would be turned out too , that it is no wonder in this age of lax political morality , they maintain their seat . But what arrant nonsense it is . The Whigs did not settle the free ...
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... believe in those dogmas , is a question for the candid portion of mankind to answer ; but upon those who only require to know the truth , whatever it may be - those who believe God ever gave a divine revela- tion ( as usually understood ) ...
... believe in those dogmas , is a question for the candid portion of mankind to answer ; but upon those who only require to know the truth , whatever it may be - those who believe God ever gave a divine revela- tion ( as usually understood ) ...
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... believe me , for all the signs which I have shown among them ? ' ( Num- bers , xiv . ii . ) It would be easy , but it would be unbecoming , to justify the complaint of the deity from the whole tenor of the Mosaic history . votaries , he ...
... believe me , for all the signs which I have shown among them ? ' ( Num- bers , xiv . ii . ) It would be easy , but it would be unbecoming , to justify the complaint of the deity from the whole tenor of the Mosaic history . votaries , he ...
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Página 124 - And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Página 150 - These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.
Página 259 - ... families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Página 133 - ... so many proud monarchs, and fancied gods, groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many magistrates, who persecuted the name of the Lord, liquefying in fiercer fires than they ever kindled against the Christians; so many sage philosophers blushing in redhot flames with their deluded scholars; so many celebrated poets trembling before the tribunal, not of Minos, but of Christ; so many tragedians, more tuneful in the expression of their own sufferings; so many dancers...
Página 86 - ... of fame, which transported them into future ages, far beyond the bounds of death and of the grave ; they were unwilling to confound themselves with the beasts of the field, or to suppose that a being, for whose dignity they entertained the most sincere admiration, could be limited to a spot of earth, and to a few years of duration.
Página 64 - The religion of the nations was not merely a speculative doctrine professed in the schools or preached in the temples. The innumerable deities and rites of polytheism were closely interwoven with every circumstance of business or pleasure, of public or of private life; and it seemed impossible to escape the observance of them, without, at the same time, renouncing the commerce of mankind, and all the offices and amusements of...
Página 276 - Rome, to enjoy municipal honours, and to obtain at the same time an exemption from the burdensome and expensive offices of society. The moderation or the contempt of the Romans gave a legal sanction to the form of ecclesiastical police which was instituted by the vanquished sect. The patriarch, who had fixed his residence at Tiberias, was empowered to appoint his subordinate ministers and apostles, to exercise a domestic jurisdiction, and to receive from his...
Página 145 - And he said, Thou canst not see my face : for there shall no man see me, and live.
Página 17 - Nor was the influence of Christianity confined to the period or to the limits of the Roman empire. After a revolution of thirteen or fourteen centuries, that religion is still professed by the nations of Europe, the most distinguished portion of human kind in arts and learning as well as in arms.
Página 18 - The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses.