 | 1854 - 652 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits."* The repudiation of the Bible is a necessary consequence of the customary... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - 274 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits. The civil law punishes with death not only the sorcerers themselves, but... | |
 | 1859 - 396 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in it's turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which...the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits." He tells us that the President Montesquieu " lays it down as an important maxim, that we ought to be... | |
 | Abel Stevens - 1859 - 526 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws ;...the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits." Commentaries, book v, chap. 4, sect. 6. Buckle (Hist, of Civ., vol. i, p. 263) quotes a similar opinion... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - 1860 - 436 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws; which...the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits." And let us listen, moreover, with reverential faith to the voice of our own just and holy law, when... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 424 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits." — Blackstone's Com' mentaries, b. iv., c. 4, § 6. I adduce the above... | |
 | 1861 - 606 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws which at least suppose the possibility of commune with evil spirits." Before that century closed, unsanctified philosophy had attained the acme... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1863 - 770 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony ; either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which...suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits. The civil law punishes with death not only the sorcerers themselves, but also those who consult them... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws ; which at least suppose the possibiîitj- of commerce with evil spirits. The civil law punishes with death not only the sorcerers... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1867 - 578 pages
...is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne -testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested, or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits." It is related, in "White's " Natural History of Selborne," that, in the... | |
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... is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament: and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well... 
