| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1845 - 332 pages
...we would force you to impart it to us, though it should bring us to prison, or to worse extremity. Nothing shall warp me from the belief, that every...that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide \vould unpeople the planet. It has had a name to live in some dogmatic theology, but each man's innocence... | |
| Theology - 1845 - 460 pages
...is its humanity, — the faith it discovers, in the preponderance of good over evil in human kind. " Nothing shall warp me from the belief, that every...depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. Could it be received into the common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet." "In spite of selfishness... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1845 - 452 pages
...is its humanity, — the faith it discovers, in the preponderance of good over evil in human kind. " Nothing shall warp me from the belief, that every...depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. Could it be received into the common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet." "In spite of selfishness... | |
| Amory Dwight Mayo - Universalism - 1845 - 166 pages
...every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertain meat of the proposition of depravity, is the last profligacy...common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet." And we will add, that men in their actions belie it. Even while they affirm, their affirmation, by... | |
| Amory Dwight Mayo - Universalism - 1846 - 172 pages
...theological dogmas, this is the most pernicious. Says a great philosopher, poet, and moralist of our day, "Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every...There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertain ment of the proposition of depravity, is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...goodness ; that vice and iniquity are surroundings that time may and will remove. " Nothing," he writes, " shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth." Emerson is not singular in this belief. Seneca, in his " Morals," thus enforces the same sentiment... | |
| Robert Baker Girdlestone - 1865 - 128 pages
...intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do." " Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man...is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no scepticism, no atheism but that, could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...we would force you to impart it to us, though it should bring us to prison, or to worse extremity. Nothing shall warp me from the belief, that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure He, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy... | |
| 1867 - 672 pages
...exclaims, ' shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition...depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.' And even this profanation must itself have a moral result in the eyes of him who maintains ' That night... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...we would force you to impart it to us, though it should bring us to prison, or to worse extremity. / Nothing shall warp me from the belief, that every...depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There ii no scepticism, no atheism, but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople... | |
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