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... humanity is weary of that uncharitable bigotry which , under the mask of religious earnestness , would deny a repast to a brother unless he will prepare it according to a fashion of which his con- science disapproves . The Tenth Chapter ...
... humanity is weary of that uncharitable bigotry which , under the mask of religious earnestness , would deny a repast to a brother unless he will prepare it according to a fashion of which his con- science disapproves . The Tenth Chapter ...
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... human mind . By progress I mean advancement towards a knowledge and appreciation of truth ; and that no search after truth can be erroneous , may be confirmed by the citation of the following passage : - " There be two principal duties ...
... human mind . By progress I mean advancement towards a knowledge and appreciation of truth ; and that no search after truth can be erroneous , may be confirmed by the citation of the following passage : - " There be two principal duties ...
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... humanity than were the anchorites of Egypt a reproach to the humanizing and loving religion which they professed . To live in isolation , and abnegation of culture , is as much denied to the health of the mind , as existence without ...
... humanity than were the anchorites of Egypt a reproach to the humanizing and loving religion which they professed . To live in isolation , and abnegation of culture , is as much denied to the health of the mind , as existence without ...
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... human governments to attempt to confer . All these aids ( supplemented as they are , in modern times , by the never weary monitor , which he who can read bears about with him in the Holy Scriptures ) , cannot have lost their efficacy ...
... human governments to attempt to confer . All these aids ( supplemented as they are , in modern times , by the never weary monitor , which he who can read bears about with him in the Holy Scriptures ) , cannot have lost their efficacy ...
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... humanity could be adorned ; and that the humility of which they were the fruit , could not exist without faith and hope , whose aspira- tions soared to heaven , and conformed to the precepts enjoined by the great Creator and Sustainer ...
... humanity could be adorned ; and that the humility of which they were the fruit , could not exist without faith and hope , whose aspira- tions soared to heaven , and conformed to the precepts enjoined by the great Creator and Sustainer ...
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Page 268 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 223 - He paused, as if revolving in his soul Some weighty matter, then, with fervent voice And an impassioned majesty, exclaimed — " O for the coming of that glorious time When, prizing knowledge as her noblest wealth And best protection, this imperial Realm, While she exacts allegiance, shall admit An obligation, on her part, to teach Them who are born to serve her and obey ; Binding herself by statute to secure For all the children whom her soil maintains The rudiments of letters, and inform The mind...
Page 68 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 62 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 77 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation, in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he, himself, have or have not children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 194 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Page 243 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Page 78 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Page 4 - That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Page 62 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.