 Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free : that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the...  A History of Pendleton County, West Virginia - Page 122by Oren Frederic Morton - 1910 - 493 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1854 - 420 pages
...admirable clearness. " An Act for the establishment of Religious Freedom. Well aware that Almighty God has created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burtheus, or by civil incapacitatious, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy, and are a departure... | |
 | 1855 - 576 pages
...be fairly distributed among its citizens. §3. Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free; and all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness ; and whereas a principal object of our venerated ancestors,... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1857 - 882 pages
...fairly distributed among its citizens. SEC. 3. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free ; and all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness; and whereas a principal object of our venerable ancestors,... | |
 | Ransom Hebbard Tyler - 1866 - 568 pages
...the Constitution of Rhode Island it is premised that "Almighty God hath created the mind free," and that " all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacities, tend to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness;" and further, that "a principal object... | |
 | George Wythe Munford - 1867 - 60 pages
...thankful. It is some consolation at least to reflect that we have one right not yet denied, — "That Almighty God hath created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishment or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget hypocrisy and meanness." (It... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1877 - 406 pages
...fairly distributed among its citizens. SEC. I!. Whereas, Almighty Gotl hath created the in hid free; and all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness; and whereas, a principal object of our venerable ancestors... | |
 | Citizen of Massachusetts, Alfred Ellingwood Giles - 1882 - 80 pages
...OCTOBER, 1785, 10TH OF COMMONWEALTH, CAP. XXXIV. AN ACT FOE ESTABLISHING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. PREAMBLE I. Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free ;...influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or b}1 civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - 1891 - 1046 pages
...follows : — 10 Blakely's " American State Vapors," pp. 27-88. VIRGINIA DELIVERED. 693 " Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free ; that all...attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are... | |
 | Thomas Cary Johnson - 1907 - 136 pages
...Rives, Life and Times of James Madison, Vol. I., pp. 632. "AN ACT FOR ESTABLISHING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM." " 'Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free...attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incorporations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a... | |
 | William Addison Blakely, Willard Allen Colcord - 1911 - 820 pages
...day of December, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, passed an act in the words following, to wit: " Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishment, or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness,... | |
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