Suppressed Defence: The Defence of Mary-Anne Carlile, to the Vice Society's Indictment, Against the Appendix to the Theological Works of Thomas Paine; which Defence was Suppressed by Mr. Justice Best, Almost at Its Commencement; And, on the Propriety of which Suppression, the Public, as the Highest Tribunal, is Now Appealed to and Called Upon to Judge Between the Defendant, Her Prosecutors, and Her Judge: with a Report of the Proceedings Before the Defence was Suppressed |
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Page 12
... continual change , and therefore , instead of claiming immemorial usage it cannot put in the claim of antiquity , and we shall find that what has been the common law religion in one century has been quite a different thing in another ...
... continual change , and therefore , instead of claiming immemorial usage it cannot put in the claim of antiquity , and we shall find that what has been the common law religion in one century has been quite a different thing in another ...
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... continual change ; therefore , it cannot be said to be comprised under the common law , which , our lawyers tell us , is known but by immemorial usage , and the dicta and decisions of our judges as to that immemorial usage , and which ...
... continual change ; therefore , it cannot be said to be comprised under the common law , which , our lawyers tell us , is known but by immemorial usage , and the dicta and decisions of our judges as to that immemorial usage , and which ...
Page 22
... continually changing his mind , making and unmaking his own works as if he did not know what he was about , we may take it for certainty that the Creator of the universe is not the author of such a book , that it is not the word of God ...
... continually changing his mind , making and unmaking his own works as if he did not know what he was about , we may take it for certainty that the Creator of the universe is not the author of such a book , that it is not the word of God ...
Page 34
... continually running a wild - goose chase into futurity . " To make a monody into a prophecy is an absurdity . The characters and circumstances of men , even in different ages of the world , are so much alike , that what is said of one ...
... continually running a wild - goose chase into futurity . " To make a monody into a prophecy is an absurdity . The characters and circumstances of men , even in different ages of the world , are so much alike , that what is said of one ...
Page 36
... continually moving from place to place to avoid being apprehended * . " But it is immaterial to us , at this distance of time , to know who the person was : it is sufficient to the purpose I am upon , that of detecting fraud and ...
... continually moving from place to place to avoid being apprehended * . " But it is immaterial to us , at this distance of time , to know who the person was : it is sufficient to the purpose I am upon , that of detecting fraud and ...
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Popular passages
Page 45 - Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year : ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats : and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month ; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Page 26 - Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Page 37 - Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him ; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the twoleaved gates ; and the gates shall not be shut...
Page 37 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 28 - And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Page 45 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 36 - He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and -the isles shall wait for his law.
Page 25 - But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Page 31 - But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel : for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
Page 28 - And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where CHRIST should be born.