 ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion is depriving...  Notes on the State of Virginia - Page 234by Thomas Jefferson - 1832 - 280 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Jebb, John Disney - Theology - 1787 - 612 pages
...perfonal conduct, are an additional incitement to earneft and unremitted labours for the inftru&ion of mankind ; that our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, more than on our opinions in phyfic or geometry ; that, therefore, the profcribing any citizen as unworthy the... | |
 | William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
...the forcing a man to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, K depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions...conduct, are an additional incitement to earnest and upremitted labors for the instruction of mankind ; — That our civil • fights have no dependence... | |
 | William Gordon - United States - 1801 - 452 pages
...the forcing a man to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving .his contributions...proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, arc an additional incitement to earnest and upremitted labors for the instruction of mankind ; —... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...support this or that teacher of his own reliyiotis 'persuaMori, is depriving him of the eomibrtable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his patetn, and whose powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness, and is withdrawing iVom the ministry... | |
 | Virginia - 1803 - 548 pages
...which- proceeding from an approbation of their perional conduct, are an additional incitement to earnefl and unremitting labours for the instruction of mankind ; that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our -opinions in phyfics or geometry; that therefore... | |
 | Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 pages
...the forcing him to support this or that teacher, of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions...righteousness, and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards, which, proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 844 pages
...even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions...righteousness, and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards, which proceeding from an approbation of their personal conduct, are an additional... | |
 | William Waller Hening - Law - 1823 - 842 pages
...powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness, and is withdrawing from the ministry those temporary rewards, which proceeding from an approbation of their...instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry; that therefore... | |
 | 1826 - 126 pages
...that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher not of his own p'ersuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions...an additional incitement to earnest and unremitting labors for the instruction of mankind; that our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions,... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1830 - 456 pages
...the forcing a man to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions...powers he feels most persuasive to righteousness; and withdrawing from the ministry those temporal rewards, which, proceeding from an approbation of their... | |
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