| 1840 - 876 pàgines
...no God, in whom to trust in the great struggle for liberty. ' Human Immortality,' says Channing, ' that truth which is the seed of all greatness, they derided. To their philosophy man wasa creature of chance, a compound of matter, a worm soon to rot and perish for ever. France failed... | |
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1827 - 556 pàgines
...preachers of French liberty had thrown off all the convictions which ennoble the mind. Man's connexion with God they broke, for they declared that there...ephemeron, a worm, who was soon to rot and perish forever. What insanity was it to expect, that such men were to work out the emancipation of their race... | |
| 1827 - 560 pàgines
...preachers of French liberty had thrown off all the convictions which ennoble the mind. Man's connexion with God they broke, for they declared that there...ephemeron, a worm, who was soon to rot and perish forever. What insanity was it to expect, that such men were to work out the emancipation of their race... | |
| 1828 - 592 pàgines
...preachers of French liberty had thrown off all the convictions which ennoble the mind. Man's connexion with God they broke ; for they declared that there...man was a creature of chance, a compound of matter, a:i ephemeron, a worm, who was soon to rot and perish for ever. What insanity was it to expect that... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pàgines
...greatness, were made by the apostles of French liberty the perpetual subjects of scorn and derision. In their philosophy man was a creature of chance, a compound of matter, an ephemeron, a worm, who was soon to roi, and perish for ever. What insanity was it to expect that such men were to work out the emancipation... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pàgines
...greatness, were made by the apostles of French liberty the perpétuai subjects of scorn and derision. In their philosophy man was a creature of chance, a compound of matter, an ephetneron, a worm, who was soon to rot, and perish for ever. What insanity was it to expect that such... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 pàgines
...preachers of French liberty had thrown off all the convictions which ennoble the mind. Man's connexion with God they broke, for they declared that there...ephemeron, a worm, who was soon to rot and perish forever. What insanity was it to expect, that such men were to work out the emancipation of their race... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 622 pàgines
...preachers of French liberty had thrown off all the convictions which ennoble the mind. Man's connexion with God they broke, for they declared that there...ephemeron, a worm, who was soon to rot and perish forever. What insanity was it to expect, that such men were to work out the emancipation of their race... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1831 - 66 pàgines
...preachers of French liberty had thrown off all the convictions which ennobled the mind. Man's connexion with God they broke, for they declared that there...ephemeron, a worm, who was soon to rot and perish forever. What insanity was it to expect, that such men were to work out the emancipation of their race... | |
| John Webster Morris - 1833 - 548 pàgines
...liberty. Human immortality, that truth which is the seed of all greatness, they derided. According to their philosophy man was a creature of chance, a compound of matter, an ephemeron, who was soon to rot and perish for ever. Who then could expect that such men were to work out the emancipation... | |
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