A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France. By Richard Joseph Sulivan, ...T. Becket, 1794 |
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Pagina iii
... Moral argu- ments from the influence of the doctrine on the virtue and happiness of mankind --- the folly and inhumanity of attempting to deprive men of this hope --- our know- ledge of the mode of future existence very imperfect ...
... Moral argu- ments from the influence of the doctrine on the virtue and happiness of mankind --- the folly and inhumanity of attempting to deprive men of this hope --- our know- ledge of the mode of future existence very imperfect ...
Pagina 25
... morality and reli- gion ; but without the least reason , says Priest- ley , for the common opinion of the soul of man surviving the body , was introduced into Chris- tianity from the Oriental and Greek philosophy ; it was discarded by ...
... morality and reli- gion ; but without the least reason , says Priest- ley , for the common opinion of the soul of man surviving the body , was introduced into Chris- tianity from the Oriental and Greek philosophy ; it was discarded by ...
Pagina 41
... moral obligation ; and not being attached to any civil community , they never think of assigning a place of torment for the punishment of crimes committed against it . But , wherever we discover the rudiments of civil society , we find ...
... moral obligation ; and not being attached to any civil community , they never think of assigning a place of torment for the punishment of crimes committed against it . But , wherever we discover the rudiments of civil society , we find ...
Pagina 42
... moral and civil duty is ex- tended and established . The cacodæmons , fu- ries , mali genii , & c . of the ancients , were but the Christian notion of a Devil ; and Pluto , the god of hell , and governor of infernal spirits , is nearly ...
... moral and civil duty is ex- tended and established . The cacodæmons , fu- ries , mali genii , & c . of the ancients , were but the Christian notion of a Devil ; and Pluto , the god of hell , and governor of infernal spirits , is nearly ...
Pagina 53
... moral matters can be founded . Nay , even though we should set aside all consideration of the moral at- tributes of God , and consider only his natural perfections , his infinite knowledge and wisdom , as framer and builder of the world ...
... moral matters can be founded . Nay , even though we should set aside all consideration of the moral at- tributes of God , and consider only his natural perfections , his infinite knowledge and wisdom , as framer and builder of the world ...
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