On the Influence of Religion Upon Truthfulness: Being Two Chapters from an Historical Enquiry Into the Influence of Religion Upon Moral CivilisationWatts, 1913 - 324 páginas |
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Página 161 - His taste in literature and art was excellent, his manner dignified though not gracious, his domestic life without blemish. Faithlessness was the chief cause of his disasters, and is the chief stain on his memory. He was, in truth, impelled by an incurable propensity to dark and crooked ways.
Página 244 - The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one wilful untruth, or should steal one poor farthing without excuse.
Página 162 - ... would, divest himself of his despotic authority ; and that, in every promise which he made, there was an implied reservation that such promise might be broken in case of necessity, and that of the necessity he was the sole judge.
Página 191 - The law takes no notice of any perjury but such as is committed in some court of justice having power to administer an oath ; or before some magistrate or proper officer invested with a similar authority, in aome proceedings relative to a civil suit or a criminal prosecution...
Página 161 - Popery should be established in Ireland. Then he attempted to clear himself at his agent's expense. Glamorgan received, in the royal handwriting, reprimands intended to be read by others, and eulogies which were to be seen only by himself. To such an extent, indeed, had insincerity now tainted the King's whole nature, that his most devoted friends could not refrain from complaining to each other, with bitter grief and shame, of his crooked politics. His defeats, they said, gave them less pain than...
Página 74 - But, as a school of moral discipline, the feudal institutions were perhaps most to be valued. Society had sunk, for several centuries after the dissolution of the Roman empire, into a condition of utter depravity ; where, if any vices could be selected as niore eminently characteristic than others, they were falsehood, treachery and ingratitude.
Página 245 - ... holds that it were better for sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions who are upon it to die of starvation in extremest agony...
Página 29 - God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture. And, if it be further asked, what if we be commanded by our lawful prince to say with our tongue we believe not; must we obey such command...
Página 123 - It is unquestionably very praiseworthy in princes to be faithful to their engagements ; but among those of the present day, who have been distinguished for great exploits, few indeed have been remarkable for this virtue, or have scrupled to deceive others who may have relied on their good faith. It should therefore be known that there are two ways of deciding any contest : the one by laws, the other by force. The first is peculiar to men, the...
Página 134 - Nothing is more revolting in the Queen, but nothing is more characteristic, than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom.