The Founders on Religion: A Book of QuotationsJames H. Hutson Princeton University Press, 10.11.2009 - 288 Seiten 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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... duty of Self Examination, preparatory to receiving the Lord's Supper (New Haven, Conn.: Abel Morse, 1789). 8. “Religious Instruction for Youth.” Several drafts may be found in the R. R. Logan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania ...
... duty of Self Examination, preparatory to receiving the Lord's Supper. New Haven, Conn.: Abel Morse, 1789. Albert H. Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin. 10 vols. New York: Macmillan Company, 1905–07. Harold C. Syrett, ed., The ...
... duty to call your attention to the shortness of this life, the certainty of death, and of that dread judgment, which we must all undergo, and on the decision of which a happy or miserable eternity depends. The impious said in his heart ...
... duty, dictates that we should acquiesce in the will of him whose it is to give and to take away, and be contented in the enjoiment of those who are still permitted to be with us. We shall only be lookers on, from the clouds above, as we ...
... duty of every American Citizen to exert his utmost abilities and endeavours to preserve it as long as possible and to pray with submission to Providence “esto perpetua” [may it last forever—Ed.]. John Adams to Charles Carroll, August 2 ...