 ... insults over their credulous fears, their childish errors, or fantastic rites, it does not occur to him to observe, that the most preposterous device by which the weakest devotee ever believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more...  The Monthly Review - Page 541709 - 552 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Kett - Literature - 1805 - 422 pages
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference,...folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness and levity." Paley's Moral Philosophy, p. 39 1 . Modern unbelievers may have reason to boast of the boldness of... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1811 - 456 pages
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject, nothing is so absurd as indifference...folly so contemptible, as thoughtlessness and levity. Finally ; the knowledge of what is due to the solemnity of those interests, concerning which Revelation... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference...folly so contemptible, as thoughtlessness and levity. Finally, the knowledge of what is due to the solemnity of those interests, concerning which revelation... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 602 pages
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference...folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness and levity." * But, to return : I expect the sanguine Amateur will object to the sentiments which have been expressed.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...maintain to be true, viz. that the wildest opinion that ever was entertained in matters of Religion, is more rational than unconcern about these matters....particular doctrines what they may, the professors of these doctriaes appear te be in earnest about them ; and a man who is in earnest in Religion cannot be a... | |
 | John Poynder - 1820 - 154 pages
...believed he was securing the " happiness of a future life, is more rational " than unconcern about it. Upon this subject, " nothing is so absurd as indifference...no folly " so contemptible as thoughtlessness and le" vity." — Mor. Phil. book v. chap. 9. Another allegation of the same honourable opponent was,... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
...the happiness of a future life, is more rational than un. concern about it. Upon this subjectrnoihing is so absurd as indifference; — no folly so contemptible, as thoughtlessness and levity. Finally ; the knowledge of what is due to the solemnity of those interests, concerning which revelation... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 472 pages
...believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon this subject, nothing is so absurd as indifference...folly so contemptible, as thoughtlessness and levity. Finally ; The knowledge of what is due to the solemnity of those interests, concerning which revelation... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American literature - 1824 - 358 pages
...believed he wfis securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it Upon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference; — no folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness or levity." PALE*. In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1824 - 308 pages
...he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. Upon tins subject nothing is so absurd as indifference , — no folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness or levity.*'— PALEY. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. in. LONDON : JOHN MILLER, 5, NEW BRIDGE AND WILLIAM BLACKWOOD,... | |
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