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... a panic , mankind would be anxious about one matter only ( a matter in reality of impor- tance ) that of their salvation . Life , they said , is but a pas- Ambition and artifices of ecclesiastics . a passage heaven is 38 TREATISE ON MAN .
... a panic , mankind would be anxious about one matter only ( a matter in reality of impor- tance ) that of their salvation . Life , they said , is but a pas- Ambition and artifices of ecclesiastics . a passage heaven is 38 TREATISE ON MAN .
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... heaven is our inheritance ; why then should we give ourselves up to earthly pleasures ? If discourses of this kind did not entirely detach the laity from earthly enjoyments , it at least weaned them from the love of their relations , of ...
... heaven is our inheritance ; why then should we give ourselves up to earthly pleasures ? If discourses of this kind did not entirely detach the laity from earthly enjoyments , it at least weaned them from the love of their relations , of ...
Sivu 54
... heaven , and under the name of indulgences , received ready money for bills drawn on heaven and payable to order . Now , as we have seen in every age the sacerdotal cha- racter sacrifice virtue to the lust of wealth and power : when we ...
... heaven , and under the name of indulgences , received ready money for bills drawn on heaven and payable to order . Now , as we have seen in every age the sacerdotal cha- racter sacrifice virtue to the lust of wealth and power : when we ...
Sivu 56
... heaven hitherto revealed them ? Heaven , I answer , requires that man by his reason should co - ope- rate in his own happiness , and that of the numerous societies of the earth ( 36 ) ; and that the master - piece of an excellent ...
... heaven hitherto revealed them ? Heaven , I answer , requires that man by his reason should co - ope- rate in his own happiness , and that of the numerous societies of the earth ( 36 ) ; and that the master - piece of an excellent ...
Sivu 58
... heaven directs that the happiness of socie- ties be established ! Would to God that the religious system may become the palladium of public felicity ! It is to the priests that these cares should be con- fided . They would then enjoy a ...
... heaven directs that the happiness of socie- ties be established ! Would to God that the religious system may become the palladium of public felicity ! It is to the priests that these cares should be con- fided . They would then enjoy a ...
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Sivu 92 - The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy, have consequences very important, and of a long duration. It is with these first impressions, as with a river, whose waters we can easily turn, by different canals, in quite opposite courses, so that from the insensible direction the stream receives at its source, it takes different directions, and at last arrives at places far distant from each other; and with the same facility we may, I think, turn the minds of children to what...
Sivu 148 - Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Sivu 16 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Sivu 93 - I conclude, that there are great re*' sources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish " with their years It is evident therefore that it is not of nature, but of our negligence we ought to complain.
Sivu 26 - The discreet Corneille had remained a lawyer. Thus it is that the devotion of a mother, the death of Cromwell, deer-stealing, the exclamation of an old man, and the beauty of a woman, have given five illustrious characters to Europe.