 Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our...  Notes on the State of Virginia - Page 328by Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1786 - 716 pages
...punimments or burthens, or by civil incapaci'.ations, ten J only to beget habits of hypocrify and meannrfs, and are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of bnily and mind, yet cbofe not to prop4gate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power... | |
 | Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, Étienne Clavière - France - 1783 - 388 pages
...temporal punifhments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits 01 hypocrity and meannefs, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who, f^'being Lord both of body and mind, yet chofe not \ to propagate it by coercions on either, as was... | |
 | John Jebb, John Disney - Theology - 1787 - 612 pages
...temporal punifliments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrify, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord of body and mind, yet chofe not to propagate it by coercions on either; that the impious prefumption... | |
 | William Gordon - United States - 1788 - 618 pages
...temporal punifhments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrify, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord of body and mind, yet chofe not to propagate it by coercions on either; — That the impious preiumption... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1794 - 288 pages
...hath created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punifhments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits...religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet qhofe not to propagate it by coercions on eidier, as was in his Almighty power to do ; diat the impious... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...incapacitations tend only to beget habits of hy44 pocrify and meannefs, and are a departure from 4* the plan of the holy author of our religion, who,...** not to propagate it by coercions on either, as 44 was in his almighty power to do. 44 That the impious prefumption of legiflators " and rulers, civil... | |
 | William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
...burtheiJS, orl>y civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits •of hypocrisy, and are a departuie from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord of body and mind, vet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either; — That the impious presumption... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...temporalpunishmentsor burdens, or by civil incapachations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author...religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do; that the impious... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...protection of opinion was J 36 meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the words ' Jesus Christ,' so that it should read, 'a departure... | |
 | Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 pages
...punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocricy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author...religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his almighty power to do ; that the presumption... | |
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