 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1808 - 346 Seiten
...understanding, convince men's minds of error, and inform them of the truth ? Can they have any such efficacy, as to make men change the inward judgment...they have framed of things ? Nothing can do this, but reason and argument. This is what our minds and understandings will naturally yield to ; but they cannot... | |
 | Henry Hetherington - 1840 - 32 Seiten
...understanding, convince men's minds of error, and inlorm them of the truth ? Can they have any such efficacy as to make men change the inward judgment...they have framed of things? Nothing can do this but reason anil argument: this is what our minds and understandings will naturally yield to, but they cannot... | |
 | Parker J. Palmer - 1990 - 280 Seiten
...outward force. Confiscation of Estate, Imprisonment, Torments, nothing of that nature can have any such Efficacy as to make Men change the inward Judgment they have framed of things.6 The beliefs of one sect might appear bizarre or even blasphemous to members of another, and... | |
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And will civil discouragements and incapacities, fines and confiscations, stripes and imprisonments, enlighten the understanding, convince men's minds of error, and inform them of the truth ? Can they have any such efficacy, as to make men change the... 