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Soame Jenyns
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“Great men whilst living must expect disgraces, Dead they're ador'd—when none desire their places.”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) first seen 1752 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated", lines 19-20, in Poems (1752), p. 87
“The chief business of a government is like that of a nurse, to hinder those who are under its care from doing mischief to themselves.”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) first seen 1761 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reflections on Several Subjects", in Miscellaneous Pieces, Vol. II (1761), p. 250
“If christian nations therefore were nations of christians, all war would be impossible and unknown among them.”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) first seen 1776 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion (1776), p. 47
“Man is that link of the chain of universal existence, by which spiritual and corporeal Beings are united … How will man, that sanguinary tyrant, be able to excuse himself from the charge of those innumerable cruelties inflicted on his unoffending subjects committed to his care, formed for his benefit, and placed under his authority by their common Father?”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) first seen 1782 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Disquisitions on Several Subjects (1782), Disquisition II: "On Cruelty to Inferior Animals", p. 11
“Thousands are collected from the idle and the extravagant for seeing dogs, horses, men and monkeys perform feats of activity, and, in some places, for the privilege only of seeing one another.”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) said by 1787 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Works (1790), vol. 2, p. 291
“We are unable to give life, and therefore ought not wantonly to take it away from the meanest insect, without sufficient reason; they all receive it from the same benevolent hand as ourselves, and have therefore an equal right to enjoy it.”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) said by 1787 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Works (1790), vol. 3, p. 190
“Omnipotence cannot work contradictions, it can only effect all possible things.”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) said by 1787 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a strange, but a certain Truth that in politicks most principles speculatively right are practically wrong... all these propositions have reason on their side, but experience against them: they all captivate vulgar minds, because they look like truth, and they look like truth, because they would be true if mankind in general acted upon honest or even upon rational principles, but as in fact they do neither they are utterly false, and all political structures built on such unstable foundations will inevitably fall to the Ground.”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) said by 1787 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who profess outrageous zeal for the liberty and prosperity of their country, and at the same time infringe her laws, affront her religion and debauch her people, are but despicable quacks.”
Soame Jenyns (1704–1787) said by 1787 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source