| James Herman Whitmore - 1888 - 812 pages
...of the heart, or the moral amendment of man. THOMAS PAINE. [THE AGE OF REASON. Boston: 1854. P. 30.] NOTHING that is here said can apply, even with the...real character of Jesus Christ. He was a virtuous and an amiable man. The morality that he preached and practised was of the most benevolent kind; and though... | |
| 1889 - 558 pages
...Age of Reason, that "nothing that is here said" — in his holding up of Christianity to ridicule, "can apply, even with the most distant disrespect,...real character of Jesus Christ. He was a virtuous and an amiable man. The morality that He preached and practiced was of the most benevolent kind." What... | |
| Apologetics - 1891 - 492 pages
...sur V interpretation du Nonveau Testament!) Paine says: " He (Christ) was a virtuous and admirable man. The morality that He preached and practised was of the most benevolent kind — it has not been exceeded by any." Diderot: "It is wonderful, gentlemen, it is wonderful! I know... | |
| Thomas Paine - Rationalism - 1892 - 466 pages
...of power and revenue ; and it yet remains to reason and philosophy to abolish the amphibious fraud. Nothing that is here said can apply, even with the...real character of Jesus Christ. He was a virtuous and an amiable man. The morality that he preached and practised was of the most benevolent kind ; and though... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland - Sermons, American - 1893 - 348 pages
...him kindly. For example, in the first part of the '•Age of Reason" he says : " Nothing that I have said can apply even with the most distant disrespect...and amiable man. The morality that he preached and practiced was ofthe most benevolent kind; and though similar systems of morality had been preached... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1896 - 560 pages
...abolish the amphibious fraud. CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HIS HISTORY. NOTHING that is here said can apply, even with the...real character of Jesus Christ. He was a virtuous and an amiable man. The morality that he preached and practised was of the most benevolent kind ; and though... | |
| Thomas Paine - Rationalism - 1896 - 226 pages
...abolish the amphibious fraud. CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HIS HISTORY. NOTHING that is here said can apply, even with the...real character of Jesus Christ. He was a virtuous and an amiable man. The morality that he preached and practised was of the most benevolent kind ; and though... | |
| Frank Ballard - Apologetics - 1900 - 396 pages
...scathing invectives, but the reverence for good evidenced in bis declaration, quoted above, that " nothing that is here said can apply even with the...disrespect to the real character of Jesus Christ." But unbelief as well as faith has its worthy representatives. It is matter for deep Christian sorrow,... | |
| Francis T. Morton - Church and state - 1909 - 268 pages
...creation, and by that repugnance we feel in ourselves to bad actions, and the disposition to do good ones. Nothing that is here said can apply, even with the...real character of Jesus Christ. He was a virtuous and an amiable man. The morality that he preached and practised was of the most benevolent kind; and though... | |
| Heinrich Weinel, Alban Gregory Widgery - Christianity and other religions - 1914 - 488 pages
...in what he says of Jesus himself, to whose " real character " he declares he feels no disrespect. " He was a virtuous and amiable man. The morality that...kind ; and though similar systems of morality had 41 been preached by Confucius, and by some of the Greek philosophers many years before, by the Quakers... | |
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