 I cannot pay so bad a compliment to the reasons which have convinced myself, as not to suppose they will convince others. As the human mind grows philosophic, it will, I think, wish for the destruction of all religious establishments, and therefore, in...  The United Irishmen: Their Lives and Times - Page 92by Richard Robert Madden - 1843Full view - About this book
 | William James MacNeven - Catholics - 1807 - 376 pages
...gone so far. Lard Lord Castkreagh. But don't you think they will look to its destruction ? Emmet. I cannot pay so bad a compliment to the reasons which...result of its philosophy, and not of its religion. Lord Ccutlereagh. Don't you think the catholics would wish to set up a catholic establishment, in lieu of... | |
 | Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
...reference to the church establishment, (which is not involved in this discussion.) Emmet, " I can't pay so bad a compliment to the reasons which have...result of its philosophy and not of its religion." A curious illustration of the thorough infatuation of popular excitements — a proposition which we... | |
 | John W. Burke - Ireland - 1853 - 324 pages
...gone so far. S Lord Castlereagh. But don't you think they will look to its destruction ? Em mett. I cannot pay so bad a compliment to the reasons which...philosophic, it will of course entertain the same wishcs — but I consider that as the result of its philosophy, and not of its religion. Lord Castlereagh.... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Revolutionaries - 1915 - 784 pages
...yet be gone so far. Lord Castlereagh. But don't you think they will look to its destruction? Emmet. I cannot pay so bad a compliment to the reasons which...result of its philosophy, and not of its religion. Lord Castlereagh. Don't you think the Catholics would wish to set up a Catholic establishment, in lieu of... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Revolutionaries - 1915 - 792 pages
...yet be gone so far. Lord Casilereagh. But don't you think they will look to its destruction? Emmet. I cannot pay so bad a compliment to the reasons which...result of its philosophy, and not of its religion. ф Lord Castlcrcaf.h. Don't you think the Catholics would wish to set up a Catholic establishment,... | |
 | Jürgen Elvert - History - 1994 - 598 pages
...not associate with such a scheme. In a classic statement of Enlightenment rationalism he argued that: „As the human mind grows philosophic, it will, I...but I consider that as the result of its philosophy, not of its religion." Emmet is here reflecting a view widespread among radicals in the 1790s. Radicals... | |
 | Katie Trumpener - History - 1997 - 450 pages
...superstition. Yet he foresees the eventual end of Catholicism altogether under the advance of reason. "As the human mind grows philosophic, it will, I think,...philosophic, it will, of course, entertain the same wishes" (p. 186). Emmet's sense of national temporality thus stresses simultaneously the long-term effects... | |
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