| David Hume - Commerce - 1758 - 568 pages
...in our apprehenfion, removes all pretence to religious merit-, and the virtuous conduct is efteemed no more than what we owe to fociety and to ourfelves....or which can peculiarly recommend him to the divine favor and protection. He confiders not, that the moft genuine method of ferving the divinity is by... | |
| David Hume - 1768 - 540 pages
...our apprehenfion, removes all pretence to religious merit ; . and the virtuous conduct is efteemed no more than what we owe to fociety and to ourfelves....recommend him to the divine favour and protection. He confidcrs not, that the moft genuine method of ferving the divinity is' by promoting the happinefs... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1774 - 522 pages
..." our apprehenfion, removes all pretence to religious merit: and " the virtuous conduct is efteemed no more than what we owe " to fociety, and to ourfelves....Deity, or which can peculiarly recommend him to the di" vine favour and protection. He confiders not, that the moft ** genuine method of ferving the Divinity... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1774 - 520 pages
...our apprehenfion, removes all pretence to religious merit : and " the virtuous conduct is efteemed no more than what we owe " to fociety, and to ourfelves. In all this, a fuperftitious man 44 finds nothing which he has properly performed for the fake of •** his Deity, or which can peculiarly... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1775 - 250 pages
...in ourapprehenfion, removes all pretence to religious merit : and. the virtuous conduft is efteemed no more than what we owe to fociety, and to ourfelves....peculiarly recommend him to the divine favour and proteftion. He confiders " not, that the moft genuine method of fer-ving the " Divinity is by promoting... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1778 - 524 pages
...efteemed " no more than-i what 'we owe to fociety, ** and to ourfelvesV In all this, a fuper" ftitious man finds nothing which he ^ ' has properly performed...the fake of " ;his Deity, or which can peculiarly re" commend him to the divine favour and " protection. He confiders not, that the " moft genuine method... | |
| William Hutchinson - Borders Region (Scotland) - 1778 - 544 pages
...in our apprehenfion, remove all pretenfion to " religious merit ; and the virtuous conduct is deemed no more, than " what we owe to fociety and to ourfelves. In all this, a fuperflitious ** man finds nothing, which he has properly performed for the fake of " his Deity, or... | |
| David Hume - Essays - 1779 - 548 pages
...in our apprehenfion, removes all preteniion to religious merit; and the virtuous conduct is deemed no more than what we owe to fociety and to ourfelves....all this, a fuperftitious man finds nothing, which 3 he Hence the greateft crimes have been found, in many inftances, compatible with a fuperftitious... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1779 - 570 pages
...fociety, and to ourfelves. In all this, a fu- . " perftitious man finds nothing which he has pro" perly performed for the fake of his Deity, or " which can peculiarly recommend him to the di" vine favour and protection. He confiders not, " that ** that the moft genuine method of ferving... | |
| 1787 - 588 pages
...the virtuous conduit is deemed no more, than what we owe to fo'.icty and to ourfelves. In all ibis, a fuperftitious man finds nothing, which he has properly performed for the for the fake of his Deity, or which can peculiarly recommend him to the divine favour and protection.... | |
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