By expressing themselves in this manner, do you not see they really proscribe and condemn the very religion to which they are so solicitous you should adhere?
Truth for men is only conformity to reason; and thus the same reason which the clergy proscribe is, in the last resort, our only means of judging the system that religion proposes for our assent.
It is thus that our charitable divines caricature and misrepresent the opponents of their supremacy, and describe them as dangerous brigands, whom society, for its own interest, ought to proscribe and destroy.
You perceive, then, Madam, that men who think, and who teach others to think, are more useful to governments than those who wish to stifle reason and to proscribe forever the liberty of thought.
To proscribe the Terrorists would have been wholly inconsistent with his policy; but, of all the classes of men whom his comprehensive system included, he liked them the least; and Barere was the worst of them.
In the hands of the Girondists he would have been eager to proscribe the Jacobins; he was just as ready, in the gripe of the Jacobins, to proscribe the Girondists.
These ladies were the first to proscribe the revolutionary manners, and seized every opportunity of saving those whom the existing government wished to immolate.
They may proscribemy person, they may confiscate my fortune; I will labour the earth for my bread, and I will see them no more.
Christ; and in the power given to us from God to proscribe and condemn the opposing errors.
Why, if we were to proscribe all the Catholics, we should lose a charming portion of our society.
No article of the charter conferred on the monarch the right of life and death over his subjects; and consequently he had no authority to proscribe those who accompanied and assisted Napoleon.
He shall not proscribe the guilty nor release from proscription.
The supplement was an admonition that the constitutions and decrees of the Holy See must be observed even when they proscribe opinions not actually heretical.
For the civil power had no right to proscribe a religion in order to save itself from the dangers of a distracted and divided population.
The latter had never quite forgiven Adams for deserting them; and, having been long excluded from power, they were anxious to know whether, if elected, he would continue to proscribe them.
We ought not however to proscribe entirely delicate and happy allusions, or comparisons drawn from the sacred books, and made in a proper spirit.
But is it then necessary to proscribe eulogiums entirely?
It would be monstrous to deny that such inquiries legitimately belong to physiology, or to proscribe a free study of this science.
To proscribe the Terrorists would have been wholly inconsistent with his policy; but, of all the classes of men whom his comprehensive system included, he liked them the least; and Barère was the worst of them.
But why proscribe the other, and surely, in every point of view, the more laudable use of estates?
Twould thin the ranks of the poetic tribe, To dash the pen through all that you proscribe B.
The parenthesis it seems is out of fashion, and perhaps the moderns are in the right to proscribe what they cannot attain to.
These two councils, corresponding together, undo all that the Council of Nice did, andproscribe the consubstantiality.
To proscribe Homer was a marked way of protesting against the frivolous reigning ideals.
The intolerance of truth will one day proscribe the very name of temple 'fanum,' the etymology of fanaticism.
They were styled the Company of Marat, and were specially empowered to arrest whomsoever they chose, and to enter houses by night or day--in fine, to proscribe and pillage at their pleasure.
Does that mean--no war at all When just the wickedness I here proscribe Comes, haply, from the neighbor?
The Italian government had no more power to proscribe your title than it would have to proscribe an English peerage,--no jurisdiction.
Lucius had murdered his brother before the termination of the war, and he asked Sulla to proscribehim among the rest as if he were still alive; which was done.
In an harangue to the people, he said, with reference to these measures, that he had proscribed all he could think of, and as to those who now escaped his memory, he would proscribe them at some future time.
The probable explanation is, that the Gallican Church did not dare to proscribe the same persons whom the sovereign pontiffs tolerated in their realm, and whose performances were freely patronised by the Roman prelates and clergy.
