The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 10. 11. 2009 - Počet stran: 288 What did the founders of America think about religion? Until now, there has been no reliable and impartial compendium of the founders' own remarks on religious matters that clearly answers the question. This book fills that gap. A lively collection of quotations on everything from the relationship between church and state to the status of women, it is the most comprehensive and trustworthy resource available on this timely topic. |
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... lives? All quote book compilers employ this strategy, invariably focusing on Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Adams, and a handful of lesser luminaries, culling statements from their writings that attest to the beneficent ...
A Book of Quotations James H. Hutson. beneficent influence of Christianity on their lives and on the public welfare, and presenting these pronouncements in serial form. On the basis of the evidence offered, they assume that only the most ...
... live to see you persevere in the resolution which you have taken. . . . If you have not the resolution of perseverance you will degrade your character, shorten a miserable life, and that of an affectionate wife, who to escape the ...
... make such a Species as the human merely to live and die on. Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, May 10, 1817. Adams Papers (microfilm), reel 437, Library of Congress. John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, December 8, 1818. Ibid., 2:530.
A Book of Quotations James H. Hutson. Species as the human merely to live and die on this earth. If I did not believe a future State I should believe in no God. This Universe; this all; this . . .totality; would appear with all its ...