History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, Volume 2D. Appleton, 1866 |
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Pagina 12
... human virtues have to our for- bearance , if the Almighty punishes the mere profession of error as a crime of the deepest turpitude ? If you encoun- tered a lunatic who , in his frenzy , was inflicting on multi- tudes around him a death ...
... human virtues have to our for- bearance , if the Almighty punishes the mere profession of error as a crime of the deepest turpitude ? If you encoun- tered a lunatic who , in his frenzy , was inflicting on multi- tudes around him a death ...
Pagina 30
... human instincts in the dust , and in accustoming men to accept submissively the most revolting tenets . He was the most staunch and enthusiastic defender of all those doctrines that grow out of the habits of mind that lead to ...
... human instincts in the dust , and in accustoming men to accept submissively the most revolting tenets . He was the most staunch and enthusiastic defender of all those doctrines that grow out of the habits of mind that lead to ...
Pagina 35
... humanity . ' Ambition , and wealth , and ease , and all the motives that tell most powerfully upon mankind , were to them unmeaning words . No reward could bribe them , no danger could appal them , no affection could move them . They ...
... humanity . ' Ambition , and wealth , and ease , and all the motives that tell most powerfully upon mankind , were to them unmeaning words . No reward could bribe them , no danger could appal them , no affection could move them . They ...
Pagina 38
... human mind , to im- pede the circulation of knowledge , and to quench the lamp of liberty in blood . It was in the course of the twelfth cen- tury that this change was manifested , and in the beginning of the next century the system of ...
... human mind , to im- pede the circulation of knowledge , and to quench the lamp of liberty in blood . It was in the course of the twelfth cen- tury that this change was manifested , and in the beginning of the next century the system of ...
Pagina 44
... human courage , for every man who dared to avow his principles at the stake , there must have been multitudes who believed that by such an avowal alone they could save their souls , but who were nevertheless scared either by the ...
... human courage , for every man who dared to avow his principles at the stake , there must have been multitudes who believed that by such an avowal alone they could save their souls , but who were nevertheless scared either by the ...
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Pagina 81 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thou,sand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth...
Pagina 77 - A man may be a heretic in the truth ; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
Pagina 181 - ... till by experience they found this for all parts very inconvenient, so as the thing which they had devised for a remedy did indeed but increase the sore which it should have cured. They saw that to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Pagina 48 - THE religion of the Papists is superstitious and idolatrous, their faith and doctrine erroneous and heretical, their church, in respect of both, apostatical : to give them therefore a toleration, or to consent, that they may freely exercise their religion, and profess their faith and doctrine, is a grievous sin...
Pagina 170 - It is at least an historical fact that in the great majority of instances the early Protestant defenders of civil liberty derived their political principles chiefly from the Old Testament and the defenders of despotism from the New.
Pagina 176 - But, on the other hand, she continued to be, for more than a hundred and fifty years, the servile handmaid of monarchy, the steady enemy of public liberty. The divine right of kings, and the duty of passively obeying all their commands, were her favourite tenets. She held those tenets firmly through times of oppression, persecution, and licentiousness; while law was trampled down; while judgment was perverted; while the people were eaten as though they were bread.
Pagina 78 - In the mean while, if they suffer themselves neither to be betrayed into their errors, nor kept in them by any sin of their will ; if they do their best endeavour to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty ; so well am I persuaded of the goodness of God, that if in me alone should meet a confluence of all such errors of all the protestants in the world that were thus qualified, I should not be so much afraid of them all, as I should be to ask pardon for them.
Pagina 81 - From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them. We have not yet found them all, Lords and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Pagina 41 - February, 1568, a sentence of the holy office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands to death as heretics. From this universal doom only a few persons, especially named, were excepted. A proclamation of the king, dated ten days later, confirmed this decree of the Inquisition, and ordered it to be carried into instant execution, without regard to age, sex, or condition. This is probably the most concise death-warrant that was ever framed. Three millions of people, men, women, and children,...
Pagina 271 - Christendom, enthralled by countless superstitions, and sunk into a deadly torpor, in which all love of enquiry and all search for truth were abandoned, the Jews were still pursuing the path of knowledge, amassing learning, and stimulating progress with the same unflinching constancy that they manifested in their faith.