The infidel's own book, a statement of some of the absurdities resulting from the rejection of Christianity |
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... happiness , hope , and virtue.3 To the illustration of these and similar absur- dities , the succeeding pages will be devoted . 1. See chap . iii . - 2 . See chap . iv . - 3 . See chap . v . B 1 The practical character of scepticism ...
... happiness , hope , and virtue.3 To the illustration of these and similar absur- dities , the succeeding pages will be devoted . 1. See chap . iii . - 2 . See chap . iv . - 3 . See chap . v . B 1 The practical character of scepticism ...
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... happiness would thus be afforded to the whole of the human race . 1. HOR . - Car . liii . od . xxx . Which mocks the powerless tempest's rage , And swells immortal o'er the wrecks of age . Suppose such a system to have been discovered ...
... happiness would thus be afforded to the whole of the human race . 1. HOR . - Car . liii . od . xxx . Which mocks the powerless tempest's rage , And swells immortal o'er the wrecks of age . Suppose such a system to have been discovered ...
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... happiness , domestic enjoyment and national exaltation . It is not con- sistent with our present purpose to go into the ample details of this argument , nor indeed is it needful , since it has been richly and convincingly illustrated ...
... happiness , domestic enjoyment and national exaltation . It is not con- sistent with our present purpose to go into the ample details of this argument , nor indeed is it needful , since it has been richly and convincingly illustrated ...
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... happiness ; 1 -a sentiment , I believe , not uncommon among the monstrous rout of libertine theories , engen- dered by the French revolution . One of the highest outrages which can be com- mitted against individual peace , or against ...
... happiness ; 1 -a sentiment , I believe , not uncommon among the monstrous rout of libertine theories , engen- dered by the French revolution . One of the highest outrages which can be com- mitted against individual peace , or against ...
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... happiness on earth , and we are for ever deceived by appearances . We believed them to be the happiest couple in the world , when we saw them seldom and at a dis- tance , but when one has come close to them , we find , alas , that hell ...
... happiness on earth , and we are for ever deceived by appearances . We believed them to be the happiest couple in the world , when we saw them seldom and at a dis- tance , but when one has come close to them , we find , alas , that hell ...
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Page 152 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 151 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; and labour, working with our own hands : being reviled, we bless : being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed, we entreat : we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Page 200 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 194 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Page 200 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Page 200 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Page 151 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one." " Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice J suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep.
Page 61 - As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, "so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, 'Am not I in sport?
Page 60 - Though I throw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet, in other things, I do not think so differently from the rest of mankind as you may imagine.