 | Elias Boudinot - 1801 - 366 pages
...assent ? Does he firmly believe in the divine mission of Moses, or has he impiously considered it as " a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and ivhich therefore he sincerely detests." If this has been the case with him and his brethren in unbelief,... | |
 | Daniel McCalla, William Hollinshead - 1810 - 458 pages
...that we call it the word of a Demon, than the word of God. It is an history of wickedness that SQO has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and for...detest it, as I detest every thing that is cruel." P. 39. From this it appears, that the subject in the scripture history which has most provoked his... | |
 | 1823 - 946 pages
..."is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness , that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind." The second and other counts charged the publication of several libels, which they... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1819 - 758 pages
...Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a Demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to...sincerely detest it as I detest every thing that is cruel. We scarcely meet with any thing, a few phrases excepted, but what deserves either our abhorrence or... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1819 - 736 pages
...than the " word of God : It" (meaning that part of the Holy Bible which is called the Old Testament) " is a history of wickedness that has served " to corrupt and brutalize mankind." To the great displeasure of Almighty God to the great scandal and infamy and contempt of the Holy Bible... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1820 - 130 pages
...God: it is a history of wiched" ness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize " manhind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, "as I detest every thing that is cruel." As you give no example, of the above description, I may justly doubt the truth of your allegation ;... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1822 - 242 pages
...than the word of God. It" (meaning that part of the Holy Bible which is called the Old Testament) " is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind:"— IVJr. Carlile. — I wish the remaining part of the Count to be read, that the Jury may be apprised... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1822 - 254 pages
...is filled, it would he more consistent that we called it the word of a Demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and hrutalize mankind; and, for my own part, 1 sincerely detest it, as I detest every thing that is crnel,... | |
 | 1823 - 944 pages
...is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind." The second and other counts charged the publication of several libels, which they... | |
 | 1823 - 944 pages
...«• is lied, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind." The second and other counts charged the publication of several libels, which they... | |
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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than... 
