| Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 516 pages
...them. In the eyes of the legislator, all that is beneficial to the world and good in practice is truth. The idea of the Supreme Being and of the immortality of the soul is a continual recall to justice; it is therefore social and republican. Who then," exclaims Robespierre, "hath given... | |
| Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1848 - 598 pages
...gifted a man is with sensibility and genius, the more he attaches himself to ideas which aggrandize his being and which elevate his heart ; and the doctrine...know of any legislator who ever took upon himself to nationalize atheism. I know that the wisest, even among them, have allowed some fiction to mingle with... | |
| Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1848 - 598 pages
...whose refinement leaves us no other labor to accomplish than to recall men to nature and to truth. " The idea of the Supreme Being and of the immortality...know of any legislator who ever took upon himself to nationalize atheism. I know that the wisest, even among them, have allowed some fiction to mingle with... | |
| Alphonse de Lamartine - France - 1849 - 594 pages
...gifted a man is with sensibility and genius, the more he attaches himself to ideas which aggrandize his being and which elevate his heart ; and the doctrine...know of any legislator who ever took upon himself to nationalize atheism. I know that the wisest, even among them, have allowed some fiction to mingle with... | |
| George Henry Lewes - France - 1849 - 367 pages
...attaches himself to ideas which elevate him ; ami the doctrine of such men becomes that of the world. "The idea of the Supreme Being and of the immortality...continual appeal to justice; this idea is then social and republicnn. (Jlpplanse) I know of no legislator who ever attempted to nationalise atheism. I know that... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1849 - 674 pages
...made on this occasion was one of the most remarkable of his whole career. " The idea," said he, " of a Supreme Being, and of the immortality of the soul, is a continual call to justice ; it is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorised you to declare... | |
| George Long - France - 1850 - 704 pages
...that no innocent person had perished on the scaffold. " The idea of a Supreme Being," he continued, " and of the immortality of the soul, is a continual appeal to justice ; consequently, social and republican. Nature has placed in man the feeling of pleasure and of pain,... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...give is from hia Report, read to the French National Convention, the 7th of May, 1784. THE idea of a Supreme Being and of the immortality of the soul is a continual call to justice. It is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorized you to declare... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...gire is from his Report, read to the French National Convention, Uir 7th of May, 1794. THE idea of a Supreme Being and of the immortality of the soul is a continual call to justice. It is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorized you to declare... | |
| Henry Townley - 1852 - 110 pages
...should obey the natural and eternal laws which God has given him. — Ibid. ROBESPIERRE. The idea of a Supreme Being, and of the immortality of the soul, is a continual call to justice ; it is, therefore, a social and republican principle. Who has authorised you to declare... | |
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