| George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 Seiten
...temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, nll men are equally entitled to the free exercise of it, according to the dictates of conscience ;... | |
| Episcopal Church. General Convention - 1861 - 698 Seiten
...by the 16th Article of the Declaration of Rights, it is provided in the words following, viz. — " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
| Virginia - 1862 - 238 Seiten
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a- frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
| Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 Seiten
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and... | |
| Ezra Champion Seaman - 1863 - 312 Seiten
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and... | |
| Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 Seiten
...moderation, temperance. &»• . gality, and virtue, and by frequent recumnc* to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of ducharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, sot by AD 1776.] HISTORY OF AMERICA.... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 548 Seiten
...construed as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. IV. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner rf discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force i::i violence ;... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 Seiten
...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. "16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...directed only by reason and conviction, not by force and violence, and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion,... | |
| John Fulton - 1864 - 582 Seiten
...be construed as exceptions to certain specified powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution. " That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, and not by force and violence ; and therefore all men have a natural, equal, and inalienable right... | |
| Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1866 - 568 Seiten
...and per convention," it is declared, among other things, as the "basis and foundation of government," that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,...conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and... | |
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