 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. 19 Let it simplybe asked, where is the security for property, for reputation,...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. 20 It is substantially... | |
 | Baptists - 1830 - 396 pages
...Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. " Promote also as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Irish - 1830 - 374 pages
...and cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity.— And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.— Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.... | |
 | Henry Drummond - Christian life - 1830 - 192 pages
...courts of justice; and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be mainH 5 tained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.'"—Washington, quoted... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness — these firmest props of the dutfes of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. It is substantially... | |
 | Noah Webster - United States - 1832 - 378 pages
...the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. "Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule... | |
 | A. B. Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 496 pages
...the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. It is substantially... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles. It is substantially... | |
 | Noah Webster - United States - 1832 - 340 pages
...if the sense of religious obligation esert the oaths, which are the instruments of mvestigation iu courts of justice ; and let us with caution indulge...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. 'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule... | |
 | John Morison - 1832 - 278 pages
...maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of a peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid...can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."* In a happier age, fast approaching, Christianity will dictate rules of right government; it will establish... | |
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Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure — reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. 
