World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... atheist ; the frame of man's body , and coherence of his parts , being so strange and paradoxal , that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature ; though when all is done I do not find she hath made it so much as proof against one ...
... atheist ; the frame of man's body , and coherence of his parts , being so strange and paradoxal , that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature ; though when all is done I do not find she hath made it so much as proof against one ...
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... ATHEIST AND HYPOCRITE . - An atheist is but a mad ridic- ulous derider of piety ; but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion ; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action : like an impudent debtor ...
... ATHEIST AND HYPOCRITE . - An atheist is but a mad ridic- ulous derider of piety ; but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion ; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action : like an impudent debtor ...
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... atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion . Lord Bacon . PHILOSOPHY . — Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery ; it should not pretend to increase our present stock ...
... atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion . Lord Bacon . PHILOSOPHY . — Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery ; it should not pretend to increase our present stock ...
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... atheist always talk of religion ; the one of what he loves , and the other of what he fears . - Montesquicu . RELIGION , THE CHRISTIAN . - We live in the midst of bless- ings till we are utterly insensible to their greatness , and of ...
... atheist always talk of religion ; the one of what he loves , and the other of what he fears . - Montesquicu . RELIGION , THE CHRISTIAN . - We live in the midst of bless- ings till we are utterly insensible to their greatness , and of ...
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... atheism , that make converts with- out persecuting , and retain them without preaching , are health , wealth , and power .-- Colton . RELIGION , WHAT THE SUM OF . - The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity ...
... atheism , that make converts with- out persecuting , and retain them without preaching , are health , wealth , and power .-- Colton . RELIGION , WHAT THE SUM OF . - The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity ...
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