 ... them obedient to government, and conformable to laws : and that not only for wrath, and out of fear of the magistrate's power — which is but a weak and loose principle of obedience, and will cease whenever men can rebel with safety and to advantage...  Two Discourses to Townsmen. ... - Σελίδα 5των Hosea Hildreth - 1824 - 20 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1892 - 808 σελίδες
...power, which is but a weak and loose principle of obedience, but out of conscience, which is a firm, and constant and lasting principle, and will hold a man fast when all other obligations will break. Secondly, it tends to make men peaceable with one another. For it endeavours to plant all those qualities... | |
 | Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1902 - 318 σελίδες
...whenever men can rebel with safety and to advantage — but out of conscience, which is a firm, and constant, and lasting principle, and will hold a man fast when all other obligations will break. He that hath entertained the true principles of Christianity is not to be tempted from his obedience... | |
 | John Bender - 1987 - 355 σελίδες
...whenever men can rebel with safety and to advantage — but out of conscience, which is a firm, and constant, and lasting principle, and will hold a man fast when all other obligations will break. . . ." Nay the very deist and atheist himself, if such a monster there be, must acknowledge the truth... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1988 - 466 σελίδες
...cease whenever Men can rebel with Safety, and to Advantage; but out of Conscience, which is a firm, and constant, and lasting Principle, and will hold a Man fast when all other Obligations will break. He that hath entertained the true Principles of Christianity, is not to be tempted from his Obedience... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 σελίδες
...and peaceable towards one another" not only out of fear, "but out of Conscience which is a firm, and constant, and lasting Principle, and will hold a man fast when all other Obligations will break."23 In considering the options available to the desperately poor — begging or crime — Fielding... | |
 | Silvia Berti, Françoise Charles-Daubert, R.H. Popkin - 1996 - 562 σελίδες
...cease when ever men can Rebel with safety, and to advantage; but out of Conscience, which is a firm and constant, and lasting Principle, and will hold a man fast, when all other Obligations will break. He that hath imbibed the true Principles of Christianity, is not to be tempted from his Obedience and... | |
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