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... religion exists , and therefore by some means or other was established . Now it either owes the principle of its establishment , i.e. its first publication , to the activity of the person who was the founder of the institution and of ...
... religion exists , and therefore by some means or other was established . Now it either owes the principle of its establishment , i.e. its first publication , to the activity of the person who was the founder of the institution and of ...
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... religion was attended with difficulty and danger . As addressed to the Jews , it was a system adverse not only to their habitual opinions , but to those opinions upon which their hopes , their partialities , their pride , their ...
... religion was attended with difficulty and danger . As addressed to the Jews , it was a system adverse not only to their habitual opinions , but to those opinions upon which their hopes , their partialities , their pride , their ...
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... religion . That is a fact which will not be dis- puted . They therefore who stood forth to preach the religion , must necessarily reproach these rulers with an execution , which they could not but represent as an unjust and cruel murder ...
... religion . That is a fact which will not be dis- puted . They therefore who stood forth to preach the religion , must necessarily reproach these rulers with an execution , which they could not but represent as an unjust and cruel murder ...
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... religion of their ancestors , the religion in which they had been brought up , the religion of the State and of the magis- trate , the rites which they frequented , the pomp which they admired , was throughout a system of folly and ...
... religion of their ancestors , the religion in which they had been brought up , the religion of the State and of the magis- trate , the rites which they frequented , the pomp which they admired , was throughout a system of folly and ...
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... religion entirely as an affair of State , as much under the tuition of the magistrate as any other part of the police . The religion of that age was not merely allied to the State ; it was incorporated into it . Many of its offices were ...
... religion entirely as an affair of State , as much under the tuition of the magistrate as any other part of the police . The religion of that age was not merely allied to the State ; it was incorporated into it . Many of its offices were ...
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