The Works of M. de Voltaire: A treatise on tolerationJ. Newbery, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T. Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins, at Salisbury., 1764 |
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Page 14
... least fifty voices , over and above the one half of the judges , before they would dare to pronounce fentence of death ; but to what does all this tend ? Why to what we know , but make very little ufe of , that the Greeks were wiser and ...
... least fifty voices , over and above the one half of the judges , before they would dare to pronounce fentence of death ; but to what does all this tend ? Why to what we know , but make very little ufe of , that the Greeks were wiser and ...
Page 76
... least some excufe for fuch an action ; where- as , Nero had neither excufe , pretence , or intereft for the deed attributed to him . Reports of this kind have been common in every country among the the populace , and even our own times ...
... least some excufe for fuch an action ; where- as , Nero had neither excufe , pretence , or intereft for the deed attributed to him . Reports of this kind have been common in every country among the the populace , and even our own times ...
Page 102
... least tolerating spirit , cannot help his indignation from rifing against thofe writers , who accused Dioclefian of persecuting the Chriftians after his acceffion to the empire ; Here we need only refer to Eufebius of Cefarea , whose ...
... least tolerating spirit , cannot help his indignation from rifing against thofe writers , who accused Dioclefian of persecuting the Chriftians after his acceffion to the empire ; Here we need only refer to Eufebius of Cefarea , whose ...
Page 145
... least constraint in point of reli- gion among the Jews ; it is true , indeed , that they frequently deftroyed and murdered one another ; but that was from motives of political concern , and not about the modes of belief . It is true ...
... least constraint in point of reli- gion among the Jews ; it is true , indeed , that they frequently deftroyed and murdered one another ; but that was from motives of political concern , and not about the modes of belief . It is true ...
Page 151
... least great danger or diftrefs , offered up the most fa- vourite of their children , and that Ilus facrificed his fon Jehud much about the fame time , that God made the trial of Abraham's faith . It is very dif- ficult to penetrate into ...
... least great danger or diftrefs , offered up the most fa- vourite of their children , and that Ilus facrificed his fon Jehud much about the fame time , that God made the trial of Abraham's faith . It is very dif- ficult to penetrate into ...
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Popular passages
Page 71 - It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
Page 123 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews...
Page 133 - Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
Page 171 - They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them : and they perished from among the congregation.
Page 172 - They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God ; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities : and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people ; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Page 172 - They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
Page 173 - No eye shall see me : And disguiseth his face. In the dark they dig through houses, Which they had marked for themselves in the daytime : They know not the light. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: If one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Page 123 - For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
Page 157 - Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah...
Page 184 - But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth ; and he fent forth his armies, and deftroyed thofe murderers, and burnt up their city. Then faith he to his fervants, The wedding is ready, but they who were bidden were not worthy.