The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volumen8William Durell, 1811 |
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... religion . The bulk of mankind is not likely to be very wise , or very good : and I know not whether there are not many states of life , in which all knowledge , less than the highest wisdom , will produce discontent and danger . I ...
... religion . The bulk of mankind is not likely to be very wise , or very good : and I know not whether there are not many states of life , in which all knowledge , less than the highest wisdom , will produce discontent and danger . I ...
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... religious obligation and with very faint distinctions of right and wrong , can never be safely employed , or confidently trusted : they can be honest only by obstinacy , and diligent only by compulsion or caprice . Some instruction ...
... religious obligation and with very faint distinctions of right and wrong , can never be safely employed , or confidently trusted : they can be honest only by obstinacy , and diligent only by compulsion or caprice . Some instruction ...
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... religion . Morality obliges men to live honestly and soberly , because such behaviour is most conducive to public happiness , and consequently , to their own ; religion , to pursue the same course , be- cause conformable to the will of ...
... religion . Morality obliges men to live honestly and soberly , because such behaviour is most conducive to public happiness , and consequently , to their own ; religion , to pursue the same course , be- cause conformable to the will of ...
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... religious or moral institution in the world , that ever set in a right light these two material points , the essence ... religion and morality , the subject of so many thousand volumes , is , in short , no more than this : the Supreme ...
... religious or moral institution in the world , that ever set in a right light these two material points , the essence ... religion and morality , the subject of so many thousand volumes , is , in short , no more than this : the Supreme ...
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... religious evils . Of political evil , if we suppose the origin of moral evil discovered , the account is by no means difficult : polity being only the conduct of immoral men in public affairs . The evils of each par- ticular kind of ...
... religious evils . Of political evil , if we suppose the origin of moral evil discovered , the account is by no means difficult : polity being only the conduct of immoral men in public affairs . The evils of each par- ticular kind of ...
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