 ... insults over their credulous fears, their childish errors, or fantastic rites, it does not occur to him to observe, that the most preposterous device by which the weakest devotee ever believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more...  The Monthly Review - Strana 541709 - Počet stránok 552Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - Počet stránok 422
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference,...folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness and levity." Paley's Moral Philosophy, p. 39 1 . Modern unbelievers may have reason to boast of the boldness of... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - Počet stránok 456
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject, nothing is so absurd as indifference...folly so contemptible, as thoughtlessness and levity. Finally ; the knowledge of what is due to the solemnity of those interests, concerning which Revelation... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - Počet stránok 540
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference...folly so contemptible, as thoughtlessness and levity. Finally, the knowledge of what is due to the solemnity of those interests, concerning which revelation... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - Počet stránok 602
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference...folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness and levity." * But, to return : I expect the sanguine Amateur will object to the sentiments which have been expressed.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - Počet stránok 636
...maintain to be true, viz. that the wildest opinion that ever was entertained in matters of Religion, is more rational than unconcern about these matters....particular doctrines what they may, the professors of these doctriaes appear te be in earnest about them ; and a man who is in earnest in Religion cannot be a... | |
 | John Poynder - 1820 - Počet stránok 154
...believed he was securing the " happiness of a future life, is more rational " than unconcern about it. Upon this subject, " nothing is so absurd as indifference...no folly " so contemptible as thoughtlessness and le" vity." — Mor. Phil. book v. chap. 9. Another allegation of the same honourable opponent was,... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - Počet stránok 476
...the happiness of a future life, is more rational than un. concern about it. Upon this subjectrnoihing is so absurd as indifference; — no folly so contemptible, as thoughtlessness and levity. Finally ; the knowledge of what is due to the solemnity of those interests, concerning which revelation... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - Počet stránok 472
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject, nothing is so absurd as indifference...folly so contemptible, as thoughtlessness and levity. Finally ; The knowledge of what is due to the solemnity of those interests, concerning which revelation... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1824 - Počet stránok 358
...believed he wfis securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it Upon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference; — no folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness or levity." PALE*. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1824 - Počet stránok 308
...he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon tins subject nothing is so absurd as indifference , — no folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness or levity.*'— PALEY. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. in. LONDON : JOHN MILLER, 5, NEW BRIDGE AND WILLIAM BLACKWOOD,... | |
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