 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1856 - 500 pages
...important respects the rule of life has varied since that distant period. Let the Institutes of Menu he explored with the same view ; we shall arrive at the...prescribed, the same duties imposed : even the boldest of those ingenious skeptics, who have attacked every other opinion, has spared the sacred and immutable... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 882 pages
...the composition of the Pentateuch ; and let any man, if he is able, tell me in what important respect the rule of life has varied since that distant period....system is, in all its grand features, the same The fact is evident, that no improvements have been made in practical morality The facts which lead to... | |
 | 1858 - 796 pages
...the composition of the Pentateuch ; and let any man, if he is able, tell me in what important respect the rule of life has varied since that distant period....system is, in all its grand features, the same. The fact is evident, that no improvements have been made in practical morality." (Note, p. 104). Life itself... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 472 pages
...life has varied since that distant period. Let the Institutes of Menu be explored with the same view 5 we shall arrive at the same conclusion. Let the books...prescribed, the same duties imposed : even the boldest of those ingenious skeptics who have attacked every other opinion has spared the sacred and immutable... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 886 pages
...the composition of the Pentateuch ; and let any man, if he is able, tell me in what important respect the rule of life has varied since that distant period....system is, in all its grand features, the same The fact is evident, that no improvements have been made in practical morality The facts which lead to... | |
 | 1863 - 532 pages
...varied since that " distant period. Let the books of false •' religions be opened, and it will bo ' found that their moral system is, in all ' its grand features, the same. Such as the rule was at the first dawn of ' history, such it continues till the " present day. Ages... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1864 - 900 pages
...varied since that distant period. Let the Institutes of Menu be explored with the same view : v,\shall arrive at the same conclusion. Let the books of false...found that their moral system is, in all its grand featur-.-, the same The fact is evident, that no improvements have been niii'.l" in practical morality... | |
 | E. M. King - 1864 - 432 pages
...God. Sir James Mackintosh says, " Let all the books of false religion (why false ?) be opened, and it will be found that their moral system is, in all its grand features, the same. Such as the rule was at the first dawn of history, such it continues to the present day." These books,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1865 - 724 pages
...able, tell me in what important respect the rule ot life has varied since that distant period. Lef the Institutes of Menu be explored with the same view...system is, in all its grand features, the same The fact is evident, that no improvements have been made in practical morality The facts which lead to... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1865 - 388 pages
...Institutes of Menu be eiplored with thé same view; ne shall arrive at thé same conclusion. Let thé books of false religion be opened ; it will be found that their moral system is, in ail ils graod features, thé same The fact is évident, that no improvemeuts hâve been made in praetical... | |
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More than three thousand years have elapsed since the composition of the Pentateuch ; and let any man, if he is able, tell me in what important respects the rule of life has varied since that distant period. Let the Institutes of Menu be explored with... 
