The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this Edition, Containing Additional Information Relative to His Personal and Public Character, Band 4Carey and Hart, 1841 |
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... polygamy and concubinage are established . But admitting these immense numbers , and this extreme patience of the Israelites , naturally impatient , rash , and unruly , to be consistent ; admitting that the expectation of a promised ...
... polygamy and concubinage are established . But admitting these immense numbers , and this extreme patience of the Israelites , naturally impatient , rash , and unruly , to be consistent ; admitting that the expectation of a promised ...
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... polygamy less necessary than they were formerly , on Cumberland's vain as- sumption that the earth is sufficiently peopled . Men who were advanced in years , and had never been married , were stigma- tised at Sparta ; and as well there ...
... polygamy less necessary than they were formerly , on Cumberland's vain as- sumption that the earth is sufficiently peopled . Men who were advanced in years , and had never been married , were stigma- tised at Sparta ; and as well there ...
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... polygamy , for the second was too contrary to nature and good policy to spread wide , or to last long , was allowed by the Mosaical law , and was authorised by God him- self . There is , indeed , a very loose restraint laid on a king ...
... polygamy , for the second was too contrary to nature and good policy to spread wide , or to last long , was allowed by the Mosaical law , and was authorised by God him- self . There is , indeed , a very loose restraint laid on a king ...
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... polygamy caused . The writers , who pretend sometimes that polygamy has not the effect ascribed to it , employ , at other times this very increase as an argument against it . But surely the argument , as well as the pretence , is false ...
... polygamy caused . The writers , who pretend sometimes that polygamy has not the effect ascribed to it , employ , at other times this very increase as an argument against it . But surely the argument , as well as the pretence , is false ...
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... polygamy , to repair these accu- mulated losses , than that he , the first Cæsar , should . This was not done , however , nor was polygamy established among the Romans before they were Christians . It was less likely to be so afterwards ...
... polygamy , to repair these accu- mulated losses , than that he , the first Cæsar , should . This was not done , however , nor was polygamy established among the Romans before they were Christians . It was less likely to be so afterwards ...
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Seite 349 - We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no;* it being impossible for us, by the contemplation of our own ideas, without revelation, to discover whether Omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think, or else joined and fixed to matter so disposed a thinking immaterial substance...
Seite 26 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and, if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life...
Seite 47 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Seite 312 - It was foretold, that to him should the gathering of the people be ; and that God would give him the Heathen for his inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession, which was punctually fulfilled by the wonderful success of the gospel, and its universal propagation throughout the world.
Seite 49 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Seite 195 - And if we may not suppose men ever to have been in the state of Nature, because we hear not much of them in such a state, we may as well suppose the armies of Salmanasser or Xerxes were never children, because we hear little of them till they were men and embodied in armies.
Seite 99 - That also of the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Seite 230 - And every daughter that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.
Seite 403 - As in matters of sense, the reason why a thing is visible is not because it is seen, but it is therefore seen because it is visible : so in matters of natural reason and morality, that which is holy and good...
Seite 361 - It is not only true, but obvious, that man is connected by his nature, and, therefore, by the design of the Author of all nature, with the whole tribe of animals, and so closely with some of them, that the distance between his intellectual faculties and theirs, which constitutes as really, though not so sensibly as figure, the difference of species, appears, in many instances, small, and would probably appear still less, if we had the means of knowing their motives, as we have of observing their...