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" A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd, except for purposes of punishment ; and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong ; and when the world is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures... "
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by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poets, English - 1831 - 576 pages
...correct must be morally wrong ; and when the world is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer? Human passions have probably...bully with torments, and all that ! I cannot help thinkiug that the menace of hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - English letters - 1831 - 572 pages
...correct must be morally wrong ; and when the world it at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer? Human passions have probably...torments, and all that! I cannot help thinking that the mfnace of hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. "...
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Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, Volumes 17-20

1831 - 412 pages
...ever heard of him from others, during absence and distance." BYRON'S OPINION OF FAITH WITHOUT REASON. It is useless to tell me not to reason, but to believe. You might as well tell • man not to wake, but >leep. And then to bully with torments, and all that ' I cannot help thinking...
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Life and journals [&c.].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 622 pages
...disfigured the divine doctrines- here ; hut all is inscrutahle. It is useless to tell me not to reason, hut to believe ;you might as well tell a man not to wake, hut aleep. And then to hully with torments, and all that ! I cannot help thinking that the menace of...
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Letters & Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 3

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English letters - 1833 - 684 pages
...correct must be morally wrong ; and when ' the world is at an end, what moral or warning purpose 1 can eternal tortures answer ? Human passions have * probably...useless to tell me not to reason, but to believe. 1 You might as well tell a man not to wake, but sleep. f And then to bully with torments, and all that...
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Letters and journals [&c.].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1833 - 678 pages
...world is at an end, what moral or warning purpose ' can eternal tortures answer ? Human passions have 1 probably disfigured the divine doctrines here ;—...inscrutable. ' It is useless to tell me not to reason, but to oelieve. ' You might as well tell a man not to wake, but sleep. * And then to bulb/ with torments,...
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The Works of George Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 6

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 446 pages
...correct must be morally wrong ; and when the world is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer ? Human passions have probably...inscrutable. " It is useless to tell me not to reason, but to belieix. You might as well tell a man not to wake, but sleep. And then to bully with torments, and...
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The Works of Lord Byron: In Verse and Prose. Including His Letters, Journals ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...correct must be morally wrong ; and when the world if at an end\ w ha» moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer? Human passions have probably...disfigured the divine doctrines here: — but the whole tiling is inscrutable." It is useless to tell me no/ to return, but to believe. You might as well tell...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 pages
...correct must be morally wrong , and when the world is at an end, what moral or warning purpose tan eternal tortures answer? Human passions have probably...to reason! but to believe. You might as well tell d man not to wake, but sleep. And then to bully with torments, and all that ! I cannot help thinking...
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Lord Byron Jugé Par Les Témoins de Sa Vie: My Recollections of Lord Byron ...

Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - Poets, English - 1869 - 676 pages
...correct, must be morally wrong: and when the world is at an end, w r hat moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer? Human passions have probably...doctrines here; but the whole thing is inscrutable." And again:— " I have often been inclined to materialism in philosophy; but could never bear its introduction...
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