 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 540 pages
...to be rather, the institution of an order of reformers, than of a national governing religion; yet no religion ever appeared in the world, whose natural tendency was so mucb directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. When it has had a contrary effecT:, it... | |
 | 1806 - 500 pages
...empire so often and so fatally brokcnf. " They acknowledge, in slill more pointed and decisive terms, that no religion ever appeared in the world, whose...directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind}. " They ackndwledge .that Christianity^ divested of all fanaticism, and better understood than in former... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...confessions to this of PAINE: — " No religion," says he, " ever appeared in the world, whose na' tural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and ' happiness of mankind as Christianity. No system can be more ' simple and plain than that of natural religion, as it stands... | |
 | 1806 - 678 pages
...Clirittian Observer.) IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS OF BOt1RCBROKE. " No religion," said that deistical nobleman, " ever appeared in the world, whose natural tendency...to promote the peace and happiness of mankind, as Christianity. No system can be more simple and plain than that of natural religion, as it stands in... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...broken. — [Bolingbroke, v. iv. p. 433.1 They acknowledge, in still more pointed and decisive terms, that no Religion ever appeared in the world, whose...directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. — [Bolingbroke.] They acknowledge, in fine, that these changes are not owing to the cultivation of... | |
 | 1807 - 856 pages
...— [Bolingbroke, v. iv. p. 433.1 Thev acknowledge, in still more pointed and decisive terms, thnt no Religion ever appeared in the world, whose natural...directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. — [Bolingbroke.] They acknowledge, in fine, that these changes are nut oitrng to the cultivation... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 508 pages
...reformers, than of a national governing religion ; yet no religion ever appeared in the world, M'hose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. If it has had a contrary effect, it has had it apparently, not really. Theology is in fault, not religion.... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...month ! Lord BOUNGBROKE has made confessions similar to this of PAINE: — "No religion," says he, "ever appeared in the world, whose natural tendency...directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind as Christianity. No system can be more simple and plain than that of natural religion, as it stands in... | |
 | John Fleetwood - 1813 - 558 pages
...the deistical objections, and even acknowledged the divine original of the Gospel : for he asserts, " That no religion ever appeared in the world, whose...to promote the peace and happiness of mankind.''' He declares, that, " No system can | be more simple and plain than that ot' ! a natural religion, as... | |
 | Richard Yates - Church and state - 1817 - 392 pages
...vices of men, that reason will not decide against it on principles of good policy." vol. iv. -p. 311. " No religion ever appeared in the world, whose natural...peace and happiness of mankind, as the Christian." vol. n. p. 286. " The system of Religion which Christ published, and his Evangelists recorded, is a... | |
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No religion ever appeared in the world, whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind, as , the Christian. 
