Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms Machiavelli 5.
... and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual arms Machiavelli 5.
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... religion , -revelation being for the present altogether left out of the question , -it is not easy to see that a philosopher of the present day is more favourably situated than Thales or Simonides . He has before him just the same ...
... religion , -revelation being for the present altogether left out of the question , -it is not easy to see that a philosopher of the present day is more favourably situated than Thales or Simonides . He has before him just the same ...
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... religion of the nature of a progressive science . All Divine truth is , according to the doctrine of the Protestant Churches , recorded in certain books . It is equally open to all who , in any age , can read those books ; nor can all ...
... religion of the nature of a progressive science . All Divine truth is , according to the doctrine of the Protestant Churches , recorded in certain books . It is equally open to all who , in any age , can read those books ; nor can all ...
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... religion we can trace no constant progress . The ecclesiastical history of that long period is a history of movement to and fro . Four times , since the authority of the Church of Rome was established in Western Christendom , has the ...
... religion we can trace no constant progress . The ecclesiastical history of that long period is a history of movement to and fro . Four times , since the authority of the Church of Rome was established in Western Christendom , has the ...
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... religion by merciless atrocity , destroyed the Albigensian heresy , and with that heresy the prosperity the civilisation , the literature , the national existence , of what was once the most opulent and enlightened part of the great ...
... religion by merciless atrocity , destroyed the Albigensian heresy , and with that heresy the prosperity the civilisation , the literature , the national existence , of what was once the most opulent and enlightened part of the great ...
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