| Edward Gibbon - 1788 - 358 páginas
...ihades could not ferioufty influence the faith or practice of mankind. But the precepts of the gofpek or the church, have at length impofed a pious fervitude on the minds of Chrtitians, and condemn them to expeft, without a murmur, the laft ftroke of difeafe or the executioner,... | |
| 1789 - 508 páginas
...have always refpected the natural * right of a citizen to difyofe of bis life ; but die precepts of f the gofpel, or the church, have at length impofed a pious fervitude * on the minds of Chriftian?, and condemn them to expect, without * a murmur, the loft ftroke of difeafe or the executioner.'... | |
| Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 páginas
...of " mankind. But the precepts of the golpel or the church have at length im" pofcd a pious fervhude on the minds of chriftians, and condemn them to " expect without a murmur the laft rtroke of difeafe or the executioner." — This " pious fervitude" of Gibbon is an exa¿t counter-part... | |
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