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Example sentences for "deistical"

Lexicographically close words:
deip; deir; deis; deist; deistic; deists; deit; deith; deities; deity
  1. He wrote several deistical pieces, and tolerated all religions and no religion saying "every man must get to heaven his own way.

  2. In 1797 he lectured to a Deistical Society in New York.

  3. Brother Lucian (Nicolai, of whom I have already said so much) says, that the grave Zolikofer now allows that it would be a very proper thing to establish a Deistical Worship at Berlin.

  4. The senior clerk in the office was an amiable man, but his mind was deeply tinctured by the deistical sentiments of the age.

  5. She knew not how to interpret the meaning of this ambiguous expression, and made no reply, lest, by coming in contact with his deistical opinions, she should be incapable of persuading him to accompany her at a future time.

  6. Matthew Tindal was an English Deistical writer, who was born at Beer-Terres, in Devonshire, 1656.

  7. Leland, in his view of Deistical writers, is quite in a rage with him, because he discredits Book Revelation, to set up Nature's Revelation.

  8. I calculate that in consequence of the persecution I sold more Deistical volumes and tracts last year than I should have done in seven years in the ordinary course of business.

  9. He found in the deistical literature of England everything that could suit his taste and ambition.

  10. The Germans repulsed these tendencies bravely at first, and among others was the gifted and versatile Mosheim, who delivered public lectures against the influx of Deistical speculations.

  11. He frequently avowed his deism to Lyttelton, and acquiesced in the deistical interpretations which the Richardsons put on the Essay on Man.

  12. He immediately renounced his deistical interpretation of the Essay, and adopted all the views of his thundering advocate.

  13. While he was composing the poem he accepted the deistical construction of the Richardsons; and when he was terrified at the "general alarm" he endorsed the christian construction of Warburton.

  14. In accepting the advocacy of Warburton he was obliged to abandon his equivocal attitude, and disavow the deistical creed.

  15. One of the articles of Bolingbroke's deistical creed is said by Warburton to have been concealed from Pope.

  16. Washington's library contained the Deistical works of Paine, Voltaire and other Freethinkers.

  17. That his Religion of Humanity took the deistical form was an evolutionary necessity.

  18. It is unjust, however, to attribute to Voltaire himself a perfect adherence to the deistical idea.

  19. This deistical oath, however, was probably considered a victory of latitudiarianism, for the members of the convention had taken a rigid trinitarian oath on admission to their seats.

  20. The remarks in the above letter," says Sparks, "are strictly applicable to the deistical writings which Paine afterwards published.

  21. Gray, a man of deistical principles, and whose life had been wicked.

  22. There had been revealed to man the inadequacy of the old Deistical or Mechanical philosophy, which, spreading from England to France, had done so much to hasten the revolutionary epoch.

  23. He would dread that sentiment as a deistical form of idolatry; and he is equally far from thinking that the natural man, wherever that vague person might be found, could possibly be a desirable object of imitation.

  24. There is nothing particular in it,' he admits, but at least it is better, he thinks, to listen to a bad sermon than to the blasphemous rant of deistical societies.

  25. The young candidate now borrowed and devoured deistical works, Hobbes, Tindal, Edelmann, and the Wolfenbuettel Fragments.

  26. Their libraries are well furnished with infidel and deistical works, which have been provided from Europe and America.

  27. Fable of the Bees," a deistical work, the scope of which was to prove, that private vices are public benefits.

  28. But you forget that there is all the difference in the world between Herbert and his deistical successors.

  29. Those parts are true deistical compositions; for they treat of the Deity through his works.


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