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" I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not, than that the men I read of in Herodotus should have... "
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 262
1875
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Thoughts on Religion and Philosophy

William Gresley - 1875 - 328 pages
...never had it. I grew up in a negative state with regard to it, I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me." (P. 43.) " Next to aristocracy, an established church or corporation of priests, as being by position...
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Contributions to Natural History and Papers on Other Subjects

James Simson - 1875 - 222 pages
...never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not, than that...
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Knowledge and Faith: And Other Discourses

Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 330 pages
...never had a religious belief; who was from the beginning in a negative state with regard to it ; who looked upon the modern exactly as he did upon the...religion, as something which in no way concerned him. It is not easy to bring up a child in this way, but the way is simple, and people who believe it the...
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Christian evidence lectures

Christian evidence society - 1879 - 316 pages
...never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not than that...
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Scribners Monthly, Volume 7

1874 - 784 pages
...never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not, than that...
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Science and Sentiment: With Other Papers, Chiefly Philosophical

Noah Porter - 1882 - 530 pages
...never had it: I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern, exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, — as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not than that...
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Life of John Stuart Mill

William Leonard Courtney, John Parker Anderson - 1889 - 216 pages
...never had it: I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not, than that...
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Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold ...

John Mackinnon Robertson - 1891 - 322 pages
...never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not, than that...
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Longmans' Handbook of English Literature: Pt. V : from Burke to the Present Time

R. McWilliam - 1897 - 176 pages
...never had it; I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. The boy became acquainted with his father's philosophical friends, and among others with David...
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John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 pages
...never had it : I grew up in a negative state with regard to it. I looked upon the modern exactly as I did upon the ancient religion, as something which in no way concerned me. It did not seem to me more strange that English people should believe what I did not, than that...
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