Lafitau quoted an earlier deistical work, Guedeville's. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Paris admires her deistical authors and makes them the objects of hero-worship. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Rollin and Plutarch, the deistical works of Voltaire, and the visionary politics of Jean Jaques. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
It is unjust, however, to attribute to Voltaire himself a perfect adherence to the deistical idea. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
When this colloquy appeared as a deistical essay in several American newspapers, it inspired Benjamin. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
In the year 1774, David Williams, a gentleman with deistical theories and scientific tastes, lived at Chelsea, near London. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
He plunged into the field of theology, and mastered that famous deistical controversy, of which the seed had been sown in the first half of the seventeenth century by Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
Arminian caterpillars, Socinian pismires, and deistical Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
In a sense Kant showed traces of the deistical view to the last. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
English deistical writers, Collins and Shaftesbury, and became himself. From Wordnik.com. [Initial Studies in American Letters] Reference
Frederick II., the deistical king of Prussia, had once formed the plan of a. From Wordnik.com. [The Evidences of the Christian Religion.] Reference
His views, which at this time were deistical later on reached extreme Atheism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
Leland on the deistical writers, and Paley's Evidences, and others, I read after. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story] Reference
It is convenient to deal first with his translations of English deistical writers. From Wordnik.com. [Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France] Reference
The deistical tendency passed through several more or less clearly defined phases. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
Upon the deistical hypothesis, it is a grand revolution, without any adequate cause. From Wordnik.com. [The Evidences of the Christian Religion.] Reference
Independents and the deistical leader of the Presbyterians, were alike playing a part. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People, Volume VI (of 8) Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683] Reference
He found in the deistical literature of England everything that could suit his taste and ambition. From Wordnik.com. [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference
These effusions may be taken for the beginning of the deistical reaction in the eighteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Rousseau]
Page 387 the wit, or wisdom of the present deistical writers or professors, that can compare them with Hume, Shaftsbury. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry] Reference
The degeneration of the character of the controversies can be traced in the gradually lowered tone of the deistical attacks. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"] Reference
Their studies are chiefly confined to Rollin and Plutarch, the deistical works of Voltaire, and the visionary politics of Jean Jaques. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795]
In England the deistical movement seems to be an almost necessary outcome of the political and religious conditions of the time and country. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
Hence, mercy is a harmonious combination of deistical elements so attuned and balanced that the universal diapason plays in unison in the government. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,] Reference
Thus the Classics, which in England are the means of refining the taste, have in France subserved the spread of revolutionary and deistical doctrines. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference
I desire to thank him I have been enabled to day, at court, to silence near a dozen of my old deistical companions, by stating to them my own experience. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers] Reference
"Might we not rather pop him off in private and quietness, as we did the deistical divine?" said I. "The deed would be alike meritorious, either way," said he. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner] Reference
His principal contributions to deistical literature are the "Tractatus de. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
Times "(1711-1723) gives clear evidence of Shaftesbury's deistical tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
"Theology," says Leslie Stephen, "was, for the most part, almost as deistical as the deists. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Alletz, suppressed in France and other Catholic kingdoms on account of its deistical opinions. ". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
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