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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... rich man can enter the kingdom of God ? Are these allegorical or are they to be considered as literal ? " The safest and the most reasonable way is not to believe that they ever were said by Jesus , but are mere inventions of the early ...
... rich man can enter the kingdom of God ? Are these allegorical or are they to be considered as literal ? " The safest and the most reasonable way is not to believe that they ever were said by Jesus , but are mere inventions of the early ...
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... rich man can enter the kingdom of God . ' Are these allegorical or are they to be considered as literal ? ” The safest and the most reasonable way is not to believe that they ever were said by Jesus , but are mere inventions of the ...
... rich man can enter the kingdom of God . ' Are these allegorical or are they to be considered as literal ? ” The safest and the most reasonable way is not to believe that they ever were said by Jesus , but are mere inventions of the ...
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... rich man can enter the kingdom of God . ' Are these allegorical or are they to be considered as literal ? " The safest and the most reasonable way is not to believe that they ever were said by Jesus , but are mere inventions of the ...
... rich man can enter the kingdom of God . ' Are these allegorical or are they to be considered as literal ? " The safest and the most reasonable way is not to believe that they ever were said by Jesus , but are mere inventions of the ...
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... rich , but of an ill reputation ? made an- swer , " I had rather have a man without an estate , than have an estate without a man . " But the mighty respect , which is paid to riches , has wholly depraved and corrupt- ed our manners ...
... rich , but of an ill reputation ? made an- swer , " I had rather have a man without an estate , than have an estate without a man . " But the mighty respect , which is paid to riches , has wholly depraved and corrupt- ed our manners ...
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... rich : for Nature is limited , but fancy is boundless . As for meat , clothes , and lodging , a little feeds the body , and as little covers it : so that if mankind would only attend human nature , without gaping at superfluities , a ...
... rich : for Nature is limited , but fancy is boundless . As for meat , clothes , and lodging , a little feeds the body , and as little covers it : so that if mankind would only attend human nature , without gaping at superfluities , a ...
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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.