| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 Seiten
...obtained authority amongst us. This disposition still remains ; at least in the great body of the people. We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that...society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1876 - 496 Seiten
...vitality of the national religion made him look askance upon the freethinkers. We Englishmen, he says, 'know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that...society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.' 2 The statement justifies an eloquent defence of the Established Church ; and he seems almost to think... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1877 - 466 Seiten
...obtained authority amongst us. This disposition still remains, at least in the great body of the people. We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that...society, and the source of all good and of all comfort*. In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated... | |
| John Stoughton - 1878 - 434 Seiten
...Helvetius has made no progress among us ; atheists are not our preachers ; madmen are not our lawgivers." " We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is,...constitution, a religious animal ; that atheism is not only against our reason, but our instincts, and cannot prevail long." "We are resolved to keep... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 Seiten
...not call on atheism to explain them We shall not light up our temple from that unhallowed fire." " We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is, by his constitution, a religious animal." — Burke. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONORS: — IT is not necessary for me to narrate, in detail, the numerous... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 Seiten
...rir. 1520. out partiality '• \Vo know, and what is bettci^e feeliowardly, that religion is Гл* basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all с j-jifort.'1 — E. Burke. a Burder. '• The wise man la but a clever infant spelling letters from... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1880 - 272 Seiten
...great Edmund Burke : " We know, and, what is better, we feel that, in the .great body of the people, religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition, with which the accumulated... | |
| Robert Kirkup Dent - 1880 - 250 Seiten
...our moral and social condition. Enough that, in the words of Burke, ' we know, and what is better, feel inwardly that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and all comfort,' and with this conviction, and rejoicing in the knowledge that the Clergy of Birmingham... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1881 - 492 Seiten
...vitality of the national religion made him look askance upon the freethinkers. We Englishmen, he says, 'know, and, what is better, we feel inwardly, that...civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.'2 The statement justines an eloquent defence of the Established Church; and he seems almost... | |
| Cornelius Brown - 1881 - 418 Seiten
...of that which one of her own distinguished countrymen of a former age so well described as forming ' the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.' To the scenes and circumstances of that part of Mr. Disraeli's parliamentary career we have now to... | |
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