 Observing, says that respectable body, with the ' greatest sorrow and concern,' the many books published almost every week by impious and licentious writers, whose ' principles have a direct tendency to the subversion of all religion and civil government,...  Another cordial for low spirits - Page 186by Thomas Gordon - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Leslie Stephen - Free thought - 1907 - 506 pages
...week by impious and licentious writers, whose "principles have a direct tendency to the subversion of all religion and civil government, our duty to...our country, and regard to our oaths, oblige us to present ' ' the publisher of the Fable of the Bees, and thereby, as it would appear, to give him a... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Free thought - 1908 - 494 pages
...week by impious and licentious writers, whose "principles have a direct tendency to the subversion of all religion and civil government, our duty to...our country, and regard to our oaths, oblige us to present ' ' the publisher of the Fable of the Bees, and thereby, as it would appear, to give him a... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1910 - 440 pages
...was condemned by the Grand Jury of Westminster in 1723 as "having a direct tendency to the subversion of all religion and civil government, our duty to...Almighty, our love to our country, and regard to our oaths " ; and yet, this so-called " dangerous and immoral " book, the title-page of which boldly declared... | |
 | William Clyde DeVane - Literary Criticism - 1927 - 342 pages
...Middlesex brought against the Fable the charge that it had ... a direct tendency to the subversion of all religion and civil government, our duty to...Almighty, our love to our country, and regard to our oaths ... * A complete condemnation of the Fable was the only answer that could be made to it : to attempt... | |
 | Rudi Keller - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 200 pages
...a court of justice found in 1723 that 'these Principles having a direct Tendency to the Subversion of all Religion and Civil Government, our Duty to the Almighty, our Love to our Country1.18 What has all this to do with language and the theory of its origin and development? Later,... | |
 | Bernard Mandeville, E. J. Hundert - Literary Collections - 1997 - 268 pages
...design, we conceive, to debauch the nation. These principles having a direct tendency to the subversion of all religion and civil government, our duty to...our country, and regard to our oaths, oblige us to present as the publisher of a book, entitled, The Fable of the Bees; or Private Vices, Public Benefits.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1873 - 810 pages
...week by impious and licentious writers, whose ' principles have a direct tendency to the subversion of all religion and civil government, our duty to...our country, and regard to our oaths, oblige us to present ' the publisher of the Fable of the Bees, and thereby, as it would appear, to give him a useful... | |
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