I think the system of morals and his religion as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is like to see, but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to... Annual Register - Side 177redigeret af - 1818Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Robert Spears - 1906 - 474 sider
...These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. As to Jesus of Nazareth, I think his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is like to see ; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes. I have, with most of the present... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1907 - 686 sider
...Principles of all sound Religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever Sect I meet with them. As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly...left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see ; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 sider
...nothing more easy. If we make religion our business, God will make it our blessedness. — HQJ Adam. As inspired with cloth — a poet of olothin. Carlyle....and brute, and all are fellow« in their need. — B is the best the world ever »aw, or is likely to see. — Franklin. \. Religion, cultivated to the... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 sider
...more easy. If we make religion our business, God will make it onr blessedness. — //. в. J. Adam. As < arid his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see. —... | |
| 1908 - 666 sider
...do, in whatever sect I meet with them. As to Jesus of Nazareth ... I think his system of morals and religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see. But I apprehend it has received corrupting changes. ... It is a question I do not dogmatize... | |
| Madison Clinton Peters - 1908 - 272 sider
...to him, is doing good to his other children. As to Jesus of Nazareth, I think his system of morals, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see ; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have some doubts... | |
| 1910 - 994 sider
...them." Such was his general attitude. He did not believe in the divinity of Christ, but thought " his + Mf En V|Q see." His intense praciical-mindedness drew him away from religion, but drove him to a morality of... | |
| 1910 - 1028 sider
...them." Such was his general attitude. He did not believe in the divinity of Christ, but thought " his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is like to see." His intense practical-mindedness drew him away from religion, but drove him to a morality of... | |
| Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 988 sider
...them." Such was his general attitude. He did not believe in the divinity of Christ, but thought " his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is like to see." His intense practical-mindcdncss drew him away from religion, but drove him to a morality of... | |
| David Otis Mears - 1916 - 370 sider
...to man." Akin to such an estimate is that of Franklin concerning Jesus of Nazareth : " I think his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see." Pantheism claims its Goethe ; and yet bowing before Jesus as "a manifestation of the... | |
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