 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 Seiten
...disposition still remains, at least in the great body of the people. " We know, and what is better, we feel, that 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... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 Seiten
...disposition still remains, at least in the great body of the people. " We know, and what is better, we feel, that 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... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1840 - 554 Seiten
...worship, religion would soon sink into a cold morality and caprice of feeling. The reading the New * "We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is hy his constitution a religious animal." — Buck's Reflections. •)• Cousin's Report. Testament,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 Seiten
...the moral, essential, and useful parts; such which would make her be, not seem to be, religious. 1 We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, .,that...basis of civil society, and the source of all good and all comfort. In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition witi^ which... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1844 - 452 Seiten
...Fruiti. Yet on this point they coincide. Mr. Burke.—" We know, and, what is better, we feel, ttitt religion is the basis of civil society, and the source...our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religions animal — that atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts, and that it cannot... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1844 - 84 Seiten
...not call on Atheism to explain them. We shall not light up our temple from <hat unhallowed fire.'' " We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is, by his constitution, a religious animal." — Burke. SPEECH. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONORS : IT is not necessary for me to narrate, in detail, the... | |
 | 1847 - 796 Seiten
...fathers, and queens its nursing mothers ;' while, as regards the state, to quote a statesman's words, ' we know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of all civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.'* To do honour to religion, then,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 Seiten
...beginning from a lie. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies. 35. 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 656 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 TOUR HONORS : IT is not necessary for me to narrate, in detail, the numerous... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 658 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 religions animal." — Burke. MAY IT PLEASE TOUR HONORS : IT is not necessary for me to narrate, in... | |
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We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. 
