 | 1886 - 508 trang
...Franklin, in a letter to President Stiles of Yale College, said, "I think Christ's system of morals and religion, as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see. Still I have some doubts as to His divinity, though it is a question I do not dogmatize... | |
 | James Herman Whitmore - 1888 - 812 trang
...PRESIDENT STILES OF YALE COLLEGE. March 9, 1790.] I THINK his [Jesus Christ's] system of morals and religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is like to see. WILLIAM PALEY. [WORKS. Boston: 1812. Vol. v. pp. 460, 461.] JESUS was perfectly sober and rational... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - 540 trang
...them. As to Jesns of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, the best...or is like to see; but I apprehend it has received varions corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts... | |
 | Mattoon Monroe Curtis - 1896 - 28 trang
...life respecting its conduct in this." * * * "As to Jesus of Nazareth, I think His system of morals and His religion, as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is like to see." In 1727 he had published "A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain," in which he... | |
 | 1893 - 592 trang
...them as you do in whatever sect I meet them. As to Jesus of Nazareth, I think His system of morals and religion as He left them to us the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes; and I have some doubts as... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie - 1897 - 120 trang
...acquaintance with and a firm belief in the Holy Scriptures." " I think Christ's system of morals and religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is ever likely to see." John Stuart Mill, the English doubter and metaphysician, speaks of Jesus as charged... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 556 trang
...system of morals, and His religion, as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see ; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting...Dissenters in England, some doubts as to His Divinity. Poor Richard's Almanac in its day was a power in the land. Franklin himself thus speaks of the work... | |
 | 1899 - 972 trang
...respecting its conduct in this. As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire,- — I have, with most of the present dissenters in England,...do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself about it now, when I expect soon (he was then eightyfive) an opportunity... | |
 | 1899 - 1012 trang
...morals and his religion, as he left them to из, the best the world ever saw, or is like to see; bnt I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes,...the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to hi? divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 526 trang
...As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom yov> particularly desire, I think the system of morals, and His religion, as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see ; but I apprehend it has re ceived various corrupting changes ; and I have, with most... | |
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As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is like to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I... 
