The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Tom 4Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... society , should transmit such a character of them to posterity . But this may be accounted for , perhaps , by assuming , for I grow very apt to assume , by conversing so much with ecclesiastical writers , who assume much oftener than ...
... society , should transmit such a character of them to posterity . But this may be accounted for , perhaps , by assuming , for I grow very apt to assume , by conversing so much with ecclesiastical writers , who assume much oftener than ...
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... societies tend necessarily to their prosperity , and the vices to their misery . Surely this doctrine of absolute predestination , and that of unlimited passive obedience , are doctrines of the utmost absurdity , though taught by this ...
... societies tend necessarily to their prosperity , and the vices to their misery . Surely this doctrine of absolute predestination , and that of unlimited passive obedience , are doctrines of the utmost absurdity , though taught by this ...
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... society , was in the hearts of hypocrites and knaves . Innumerable such examples charity will incline us to believe that there have been and without going farther than our own country and the last age , such Laud seems to me to have ...
... society , was in the hearts of hypocrites and knaves . Innumerable such examples charity will incline us to believe that there have been and without going farther than our own country and the last age , such Laud seems to me to have ...
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... society rose very fast , by such means as these , to great pre - eminence over the civil , in the empire , and to an influence over private consciences , that rendered their disputes , sometimes about trifling ceremonies , and sometimes ...
... society rose very fast , by such means as these , to great pre - eminence over the civil , in the empire , and to an influence over private consciences , that rendered their disputes , sometimes about trifling ceremonies , and sometimes ...
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... societies . The fervor in every one was great at first : and they renewed , in the opinion of mankind , that simplicity ... society , among Christians , has imitated successfully the policy of religious societies that flourished , above ...
... societies . The fervor in every one was great at first : and they renewed , in the opinion of mankind , that simplicity ... society , among Christians , has imitated successfully the policy of religious societies that flourished , above ...
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