 | David Hume - 1775 - Liczba stron: 446
...nourifliment of that infirmity; and as their erudition was chiefly of the ecclefiaftical and fcholaftic kind (though a few members have cultivated polite...literature) they were only the more enabled, by that acquifition, to refine away the plaineft dictates of morality, and to erect a regular fyftem of cafuiftry;... | |
 | David Hume - 1807 - Liczba stron: 552
...superstition, into a nourishment of that infirmity ; and, as their erudition was chiefly of the ecclesiastical and scholastic kind (though a few members have cultivated...ghostly purposes, might be justified and defended. THE jesuits, as devoted servants to the court of Rome, exalted the prerogative of the sovereign pontiff... | |
 | David Hume - 1812 - Liczba stron: 550
...superstition, into a nourishment of that infirmity ; and as their erudition was chiefly of the ecclesiastical and scholastic kind (though a few members have cultivated...ghostly purposes, might be justified and defended. THE Jesuits, as devoted servants to the court of Rome, exalted the prerogative of the Sovereign Pontiff... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - Liczba stron: 396
...superstition, into a nourishment of that infirmity ; and as their erudition was chiefly of the ecclesiastical and scholastic kind (though a few members have cultivated...the plainest dictates of morality, and to erect a new system of casuistry, by which prevarication, perjury, and every crime, when it served their ghostly... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - Liczba stron: 396
...superstition, into a nourishment of that infirmity ; and as their erudition was chiefly of the ecclesiastical and scholastic kind (though a few members have cultivated...the plainest dictates of morality, and to erect a new system of casuistry, by - which prevarication, perjury, and every crime, when it served their ghostly... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - Liczba stron: 596
...enabled by that acquisition to refine away the plainest dictates of morality; and to erect a new S3'stem of casuistry, by which prevarication, perjury, and...ghostly purposes, might be justified and defended." History of England, Elizabeth, cap. Ixi. 325 notti, only a few years past, could still disperse his... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - Liczba stron: 600
...superstition, into a nourishment of that infirmity ; and as their erudition was chiefly of the ecclesiastical and scholastic kind (though a few members have cultivated...polite literature) they were only the more enabled by thai acquisition to refine away the plainest dictates of morality, and to erect a new system of casuistry,... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - Liczba stron: 596
...kind (though a few members have cultivated polite literature) they were only the more enabled by thut acquisition to refine away the plainest dictates of morality, and to erect a new system of casuistry, by which prevarication, perjury, and every crime, when it served their ghostly... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1823 - Liczba stron: 818
...nourishment of that infirmity ; and as their erudition was chiefly of the ecclesiastical and scltolastic kind (though a few members have cultivated polite...dictates of morality, and to erect a regular system of casuistr}-, by which prevarication, perjury, and every crime, when it served their ghostly purposes,... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - Liczba stron: 440
...superstition, into a nourishment of that infirmity ; and, as their erudition was chiefly of the ecclesiastical and scholastic kind (though a few members have cultivated...ghostly purposes, might be justified and defended. The Jesuits, as devoted servants to the court of Rome, exalted the prerogative of the sovereign pontiff... | |
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This reproach, however, they must bear from posterity, that, by the very nature of their institution, they were engaged to pervert learning, the only effectual remedy against superstition, into a nourishment of that infirmity: and as their erudition was... 
