| Jean-Jacques Leuliette - 1797 - 212 páginas
...introduced into the world by the heathens, from whom the children of Israël copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings, and the Christian... | |
| Thomas Bayly Howell - 1817 - 726 páginas
...first introduced into the world by the heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The heathens paid divine honoirrs to their deceased kings, and the christian... | |
| William Carpenter - 1833 - 270 páginas
...first introduced into the world by the heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings, and the Christian... | |
| John Lendrum - 1836 - 206 páginas
...measure, kingly government and hereditary succession were turned into ridicule. He likewise brought to his aid several passages in the Old Testament,...prosperous invention the devil ever set on foot, for the promotion of idolatry. Kings were placed in such a light, as tended not only to destroy all attachment... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1894 - 476 páginas
...first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings, and the Christian... | |
| MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY - 1906
...first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings, and the Christian... | |
| Thomas Paine - 1908 - 368 páginas
...first introduced into the world by the heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The heathens paid divine honors to their deceased kings, and the Christian world... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It their e promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honors to their deceased kings, and the Christian World... | |
| Alfred Owen Aldridge - 1984 - 340 páginas
...strongly suggested by statements that no power which needs checking can "be from God,"24 that monarchy is "the most prosperous invention the devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry,"25 and that anyone who would promote discord under Paine's proposed system of... | |
| Lewis Perry - 1989 - 479 páginas
...with the language of the Bible and Protestant millennialism. He called monarchy, among other things, "the most prosperous invention the devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry" and "the popery of government." Yet Paine himself privately felt contempt for... | |
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