 | Richard Snowden - America - 1819 - 324 pages
...the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let uSt with caution indulge the supposition, that morality ean be maintained without religion. Whatever... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...of religious obligation desert the oaths which are instruments of investigation in courts of justice.' And let us with caution indulge the supposition,... | |
 | Samuel Charles Wilks - Christianity - 1821 - 620 pages
...with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexion with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...Where is the security for property, for reputation, or for life, if a sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation... | |
 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. . . . And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion." Without the restraining and wholesome influence of Christianity a large percentage of the people, especially... | |
 | Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 pages
...the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be...maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education, on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both focbid... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 376 pages
...where is the secu. rity for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligations desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation...maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined edu*33B.JJ cation on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience.... | |
 | Conrad Speece - American essays - 1823 - 218 pages
..." Let it simply be asked," says Washington, "where is the, security for property, for reputatiori, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert...instruments of investigation in courts of justice?" But the dearest gifts of the bible are only bestowed upon those who cordially embrace its doctrines... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...them, A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it be simply asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligations desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. 19 Let it simply be asked, where is the security for...maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 546 pages
...them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it be simply asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation,...oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained... | |
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And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national... 
