Selections from the Correspondence of R.E.H. Greyson, Esq. [pseud.]Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1861 - 432 pages |
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... critics are making this supposition in M. Comte's behoof ; his " Catechism of Positive Religion , " in truth , hardly leaves them any other alternative . reduced their creed to the extreme tenuity of his own THE SECOND EDITION . xiii.
... critics are making this supposition in M. Comte's behoof ; his " Catechism of Positive Religion , " in truth , hardly leaves them any other alternative . reduced their creed to the extreme tenuity of his own THE SECOND EDITION . xiii.
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... might otherwise have gone at once to the bottom . By many in all ages , and by as many in this age as in any , Truth is regarded as a medicine which should be disguised in honeyed vehicles ; or , if regarded as wholesome food.
... might otherwise have gone at once to the bottom . By many in all ages , and by as many in this age as in any , Truth is regarded as a medicine which should be disguised in honeyed vehicles ; or , if regarded as wholesome food.
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... Truth , was Truth's best pleader ; ' and that " if any man would submit to so odious a task as writing a long letter , - provided love plainly dictated it , — for the special behoof of some one person , it was hardly in human nature ...
... Truth , was Truth's best pleader ; ' and that " if any man would submit to so odious a task as writing a long letter , - provided love plainly dictated it , — for the special behoof of some one person , it was hardly in human nature ...
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... truth and goodness ; he ought to be forbidden to preach to his fellow - creatures , except by what is infinitely more persuasive than any eloquence - good deeds and an attractive example . It is melancholy to think of the havoc which a ...
... truth and goodness ; he ought to be forbidden to preach to his fellow - creatures , except by what is infinitely more persuasive than any eloquence - good deeds and an attractive example . It is melancholy to think of the havoc which a ...
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... truth worth , most truth - loving Atheist , in that hour to which these poor souls had come , and to which all must come in a few short years of troubled joys , perhaps of hardly any joys at all ? Let us hold fast to our lie , my friend ...
... truth worth , most truth - loving Atheist , in that hour to which these poor souls had come , and to which all must come in a few short years of troubled joys , perhaps of hardly any joys at all ? Let us hold fast to our lie , my friend ...
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