 | David Hume - Ethics, Modern - 1764 - 524 pages
...perhaps -the > grcatcft number, will ftill feek the divine favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable to* a perfect being, but either by frivolous obfervances, bv.jnterjnperate zeal, by rapturous cxtailes, or by tbe • belief of myfterious and abfurd... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1774 - 522 pages
...perhaps the greateft number, will Hill fctk the di" vine favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can " be acceptable to a perfect being, but either by frivolous obfer** vances, by intemperate zeal, by rapturous ecftafies, or by the ** belief of my fterious and... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1775 - 250 pages
...perhaps the greateft " number, will ftill feek the divine favour, not by vir" tue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable " to a perfect being, but either by frivolous obfervances, by intemperate zeal, by rapturous ecftafies, or by the belief of myfterious and abfurd... | |
 | David Hume - Essays - 1779 - 548 pages
...perhaps the greateft number, will ftill feek the divine' favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable to a perfect being, but either by frivolous obfervances, by in-, temperate zeal, by rapturous extafies, or by the belief of myfterious and abfurd... | |
 | David Hume - 1788 - 600 pages
...perhaps the greateft number, will ftill feek the divine favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable to a perfect being, but either by frivolous observances, by intemperate ?,eal, by rapturous ecftafies, or by the belief of myftcrious and abfurd opinions. The leaft part of... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1788 - 514 pages
...perhaps the greateft number, " will ftill feek the divine favour, not by " virtue and good morals, which alone '" can be acceptable to a perfect being, *' but either by frivolous obfervances, by ** intemperate zeal, by rapturous ecftafies, " or by the belief of myfterious and ab"... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...greater number, » • ber, will still seek the divine favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable to a perfect Being, but either...frivolous observances, by intemperate zeal, by rapturous cxtacies, or by the belief of mysterious and absurd opinions. Thus, when the old Romans, says Hume,... | |
 | David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...perhaps the greatest number, will still seek the divine favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable to a perfect being, but either...frivolous observances, by intemperate zeal^ by rapturous eestacies, or by the belief of mysterious and absurd opinions. The least part of the Sadder, as well... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...perhaps the greatest number, will still seek the divine favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable to a perfect being, but either...or by the belief of mysterious and absurd opinions. The least part of the Sadder, as well as of the Pentateuch, consists in precepts of morality ; and... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...justness of them. ' Ovid. Metam. lib. ix. 501. « o }n Edition N, it stood • tnoil ;w/'u/ar. ' able to a perfect being, but either by frivolous observances,...or by the belief of mysterious and absurd opinions. The least part of the Sadder, as well as of the Pentateuch, consists in precepts of morality ; and... | |
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It is certain, that, in every religion, however sublime the verbal definition which it gives of its divinity, many of the votaries, perhaps the greatest number, will still seek the divine favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable... 
