Thoughts on Religion & Other Subjects [with Pious Reflections for Every Day in the Month & Prayers by Fénelon.].1846 - 283 pages |
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... , I have not words to fix a name on so extravagant a creature . Where is the very possibility of entering into these thoughts and resolutions ? What delight is there in expecting misery without end ? What + THOUGHTS ON RELIGION .
... , I have not words to fix a name on so extravagant a creature . Where is the very possibility of entering into these thoughts and resolutions ? What delight is there in expecting misery without end ? What + THOUGHTS ON RELIGION .
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... feel myself unable to decline . " As I know not whence I came , so I know not whither I go ; only this I know , that at my departure out of the world , I must either fall for ever into nothing THOUGHTS ON RELIGION . 5.
... feel myself unable to decline . " As I know not whence I came , so I know not whither I go ; only this I know , that at my departure out of the world , I must either fall for ever into nothing THOUGHTS ON RELIGION . 5.
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... religious matters , what they offered would appear so miserably weak and trifling , as rather to confirm us in our belief . This is no more than what one of their own fraternity told them , with great smartness , on such an ... RELIGION . 9.
... religious matters , what they offered would appear so miserably weak and trifling , as rather to confirm us in our belief . This is no more than what one of their own fraternity told them , with great smartness , on such an ... RELIGION . 9.
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... religion , it is necessary that it should have obtained the know- ledge of human nature . For our true nature and true happiness , true virtue and true religion are things the knowledge of which is reciprocal and inseparable . It should ...
... religion , it is necessary that it should have obtained the know- ledge of human nature . For our true nature and true happiness , true virtue and true religion are things the knowledge of which is reciprocal and inseparable . It should ...
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... theology ; the philosophers broke out into a thousand different sects and clans ; yet were there always in the little corner of Judea , chosen men , who foretold the coming of the Messias , unknown to all 14 THOUGHTS ON RELIGION .
... theology ; the philosophers broke out into a thousand different sects and clans ; yet were there always in the little corner of Judea , chosen men , who foretold the coming of the Messias , unknown to all 14 THOUGHTS ON RELIGION .
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