Considerations Upon War, Upon Cruelty in General: And Religious Cruelty in Particular. Also, an Attempt to Prove that Everlasting Punishments are Inconsistent with the Divine Attributes. ... |
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... never may come into use again ; and more efpe- cially to beget the utmost averfion to a religion which is an affront to the Deity , deftructive of morality , a contradiction to common sense , and a fcandal to human nature . If in thefe ...
... never may come into use again ; and more efpe- cially to beget the utmost averfion to a religion which is an affront to the Deity , deftructive of morality , a contradiction to common sense , and a fcandal to human nature . If in thefe ...
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... , as well as for their own particular benefit , that they should be kept under proper restraint , and never be trusted with power ; for power would greatly a 2 greatly increase their most desperate symptoms , and in fuch PREFACE . xix.
... , as well as for their own particular benefit , that they should be kept under proper restraint , and never be trusted with power ; for power would greatly a 2 greatly increase their most desperate symptoms , and in fuch PREFACE . xix.
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... never to be feen on any other occafion but that of war ; their orderly and exact ar- rangement , the gaudy trappings of the horses , the fplendor of the habits of the men , and the fhining brightness of their armour and weapons : thefe ...
... never to be feen on any other occafion but that of war ; their orderly and exact ar- rangement , the gaudy trappings of the horses , the fplendor of the habits of the men , and the fhining brightness of their armour and weapons : thefe ...
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... never were fewer than fifty pair at a time , and fometimes five hundred pair . And tho ' these shows were at firft only exhibited , as before mentioned , on mournful occafions ; yet in the latter corrupt times of the com- mon - wealth ...
... never were fewer than fifty pair at a time , and fometimes five hundred pair . And tho ' these shows were at firft only exhibited , as before mentioned , on mournful occafions ; yet in the latter corrupt times of the com- mon - wealth ...
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... never fuffered a fet of y different kind of cut - throats , I mean church - gladiators , to mount the ftage ; who murdered one another with much more rancour , malice , and cruelty , as well as in infinitely greater numbers , than their ...
... never fuffered a fet of y different kind of cut - throats , I mean church - gladiators , to mount the ftage ; who murdered one another with much more rancour , malice , and cruelty , as well as in infinitely greater numbers , than their ...
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Page 119 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 362 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance...
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Page 356 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 362 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 106 - Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
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Page 433 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.