The Bible of Nature, and Substance of Virtue: Condensed from the Scriptures of Eminent Cosmians, Pantheists and Physiphilanthropists, of Various Ages and Climes ...G. Vale, 1849 - Ethics |
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... Liberty , for more ample views of these respective topics . This compilation , chiefly from scarce and valuable - works , will be useful as a book of reference for facts and arguments on its various important subjects . If its facts are ...
... Liberty , for more ample views of these respective topics . This compilation , chiefly from scarce and valuable - works , will be useful as a book of reference for facts and arguments on its various important subjects . If its facts are ...
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... liberty them that are bruised , to preach the acceptable year of the Lord . A A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho , and fell among thieves ; and they stripped him of his rai- ment and wounded him , and departed , leaving ...
... liberty them that are bruised , to preach the acceptable year of the Lord . A A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho , and fell among thieves ; and they stripped him of his rai- ment and wounded him , and departed , leaving ...
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... liberty them that are bruised ; to preach the acceptable year of the Lord . A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho , and fell among thieves ; and they stripped him of his rai- ment and wounded him , and departed , leaving him ...
... liberty them that are bruised ; to preach the acceptable year of the Lord . A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho , and fell among thieves ; and they stripped him of his rai- ment and wounded him , and departed , leaving him ...
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... liberty of man , By senseless terrors and vain fancies led To slavery ; straight the conquer'd Phantoms fled . Not the fam'd stories of the deity , Not all the thunder of the threatening sky Could stop his rising soul ; through all he ...
... liberty of man , By senseless terrors and vain fancies led To slavery ; straight the conquer'd Phantoms fled . Not the fam'd stories of the deity , Not all the thunder of the threatening sky Could stop his rising soul ; through all he ...
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... Liberty , after she has been chained up a while , is al- ways more fierce , and sets her teeth in deeper , than she would otherwise have done if she had never been re- strained . Let us therefore embrace and adhere to that method ...
... Liberty , after she has been chained up a while , is al- ways more fierce , and sets her teeth in deeper , than she would otherwise have done if she had never been re- strained . Let us therefore embrace and adhere to that method ...
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Page 107 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils, with infinite Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Page 126 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind, as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Page 147 - there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.