The infidel's own book, a statement of some of the absurdities resulting from the rejection of ChristianityHamilton, Adams, 1834 - 200 |
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... thousand tented fields ; and its records are rich with poetry , at once tender and triumphant . This land we are called on to abandon , and for what ? For sterility , desola- tion , and forgetfulness ! And is this a rational exchange ...
... thousand tented fields ; and its records are rich with poetry , at once tender and triumphant . This land we are called on to abandon , and for what ? For sterility , desola- tion , and forgetfulness ! And is this a rational exchange ...
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... thousands , who are yet in perfect health . For these unhappy wretches there is delusion in every element . The sun and moon , the atmosphere and the sea , the lightning and the dust , are all alike pregnant with falsehood ; while the ...
... thousands , who are yet in perfect health . For these unhappy wretches there is delusion in every element . The sun and moon , the atmosphere and the sea , the lightning and the dust , are all alike pregnant with falsehood ; while the ...
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... thousand years . Let the result in all cases have been mainly and essentially the same : -suppose such characters as we have just described , to have become con- tented , honest , and industrious ; blessings to their respective families ...
... thousand years . Let the result in all cases have been mainly and essentially the same : -suppose such characters as we have just described , to have become con- tented , honest , and industrious ; blessings to their respective families ...
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... thousand similar events . For the same reason , I am satisfied of the regularity of the operations of nature ; for even of the experi- ence of men in general , I cannot know any thing , 1 except from their testimony ; and I am compelled ...
... thousand similar events . For the same reason , I am satisfied of the regularity of the operations of nature ; for even of the experi- ence of men in general , I cannot know any thing , 1 except from their testimony ; and I am compelled ...
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... thousand people so fully , as to make them believe 1. Take a single specimen of this sort of retribution : - " Vol- taire , " said a female Jacobin , " was a bigot ; he was nothing but a deist ! " The fair enthusiast might however have ...
... thousand people so fully , as to make them believe 1. Take a single specimen of this sort of retribution : - " Vol- taire , " said a female Jacobin , " was a bigot ; he was nothing but a deist ! " The fair enthusiast might however have ...
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Strona 152 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Strona 151 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; and labour, working with our own hands : being reviled, we bless : being persecuted, we suffer it : being defamed, we entreat : we are made as the filth of the earth, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Strona 200 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Strona 194 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Strona 200 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Strona 200 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest : for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Strona 151 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one." " Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice J suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep.
Strona 61 - As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, "so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, 'Am not I in sport?
Strona 60 - Though I throw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet, in other things, I do not think so differently from the rest of mankind as you may imagine.