 | 1834 - 1046 pagine
...Convention on the necessity of acknowledging a God. " The idea of a Supreme Being," he exclaimed, " and of the immortality of the soul, is a continual...It is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorized you to declare that a Deity does not exist ? Ob, you who support so arid a doctrine,... | |
 | 1834 - 1064 pagine
...Convention on the necessity of acknowledging a God. " The idea of a Supreme Being," he exclaimed, " and of the immortality of the soul, is a continual...It is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorized you to declare that a Deity does not exist ? Oh, you who support so arid a doctrine,... | |
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 516 pagine
...them. In the eyes of the legislator, all that is beneficial to the world and good in practice is truth. The idea of the Supreme Being and of the immortality of the soul is a continual recall to justice; it is therefore social and republican. Who then," exclaims Robespierre, "hath given... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 300 pagine
...Convention on the necessity of acknowledging a Cjod. " The idea of a Supreme Being," he exclaimed, " and of the immortality of the soul, is a continual...It is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorised you to declare that a Deity does not exist ? Oh, you who support so arid a doctrine,... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pagine
...Convention on the necessity of acknowledging a God. " The idea of a Supreme Being," he exclaimed, " and of the immortality of the soul, is a continual...It is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorised you to declare that a Deity does not exist 1 Oh, you who support so arid a doctrine,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1844 - 1156 pagine
...occasion was one of the most remarkable of his whole career. "The idea," said he, " of a Supreme Bein<:, and of the immortality of the soul, is a continual...it is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorized you to declare that the Deity does not exist ? Oh, you who support in such impassioned... | |
 | Civis (pseud.), Rev. Andrew A. Lipscomb - 1845 - 256 pagine
...master-spirit of the Revolution now speak. ••'The idea of a Supreme Being," says Robespierre, " and of the immortality of the soul, is a continual...it is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorized you to declare that the Deity does not exist ? Oh, you who would support in such... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - 1848 - 600 pagine
...and which elevate his heart ; and the doctrine of men of this caste becomes that of the universe. " The idea of the Supreme Being and of the immortality of the soul is a continual appeal to justice ; this idea is then social and republican. (Applause.) I do not know of any legislator... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - 1848 - 598 pagine
...whose refinement leaves us no other labor to accomplish than to recall men to nature and to truth. " The idea of the Supreme Being and of the immortality of the soul is a continual appeal to justice ; this idea is then social and republican. (Applause.) I do not know of any legislator... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 674 pagine
...made on this occasion was one of the most remarkable of his whole career. " The idea," said he, " of a Supreme Being, and of the immortality of the soul,...it is therefore a social and republican principle. Who has authorised you to declare that the Deity does not exist ? O you who support in such impassioned... | |
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Oh, you who support in such impassioned strains so arid a doctrine, what advantage do you expect to derive from the principle that a blind fatality regulates the affairs of men, and that the soul is nothing but a breath of air impelled... 
