 Under these discouraging circumstances, a prudent magistrate might observe with pleasure the progress of a religion which diffused among the people a pure, benevolent, and universal system of ethics, adapted to every duty and every condition of life ;...  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Side 260av Edward Gibbon - 1899Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 436 sider
...magistrate might observe with pleasure the progress of a religion, which diffused among the people a pure, benevolent, and universal system of ethics,...not inform the world how far the system of national R 4 manners . $ . CHAP, manners might be reformed and improved by the precepts of a divine revelation... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1810 - 462 sider
...religion which diffused among the people a xx pure, benevolent, and universal system of ethics, adapt ^ ed to every duty and every condition of life : recommended...and Roman history could not inform the world how far (he system of national manners might he reformed and improved by the precepts of a divine reielation... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 sider
...im|>nstor. Yet of the Christian religion has Mr. Gib? bon himself observed, that it " contains a pn-c, benevolent, and universal system of ethics, adapted to every duty and every condition of life." Such an acknowledgment, and from such a writer too, ouiht to have due weight with a certain class of... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 sider
...people a pure, benevolent, and universal system of ethics, adapted to every condition of life, and recommended as the will and reason of the Supreme...Deity, and enforced by the sanction of eternal rewards and punishments." Such are the testimonies of infidels, and true it i'l that this noble system allows... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - 1818 - 422 sider
...prudent magistrate might observe with pleasure the progress of a religion which diffused among the people a pure, benevolent and universal system of ethics,...Deity, and enforced by the sanction of eternal rewards and punishments." An ordinary, unsuspecting reader would conclude from this high panegyric, that Mr.... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 340 sider
...venom in a subtle attack, is yet at last obliged, by the force of truth, to confess, that it contains a pure, benevolent, and universal system of ethics,...adapted to every duty, and every condition of life. What motive then can induce me to divulge my doubts of its authenticity ? Not the good of mankind ;... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 432 sider
...magistrate might observe with pleasure the progress of a religion, which diffused among the people a pure, benevolent, and universal system of ethics,...and reason of the Supreme Deity, and enforced by the sane tion of eternal rewards or punishments. The experience of Greek and Roman history could not inform... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1821 - 322 sider
...venom in a subtle attack, is yet at last obliged, by the force of truth, to confess, that it contains a pure, benevolent, and universal system of ethics,...adapted to every duty, and every condition of life. What motive then can induce me to divulge my doubts of its authenticity ? Not the good of mankind ;... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 sider
...Jesus an impostor. Yet of the Christian religion has Mr. Gibbon himself observed, that 'it contains a pure, benevolent, and universal system of ethics,...adapted to every duty and« every condition of life. Various answers to Mr. Gibbon's attack on Christianity wore published by Dr. Chelsam, Dr. Randolph,... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1832 - 250 sider
...morality, adapted to all classes of mankind, recommended by the miraculously revealed will 'of one supreme Deity, and enforced by the sanction of eternal rewards or punishments. Already prepossessed in favour 'of the Christians, from the marked respect with which she had been... | |
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