The Deity
deity figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the Deity · Providence · god · gods · providence
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Invoked in a hypothetical, satirical argument suggesting that if necessity justifies power, congress could even fund religious establishments to secure divine favor.
The favour of the Deity is more necessary than either;
The beneficence of the Deity was insufficient to remedy or to satisfy the speculations of avarice.
The revolutionary congress, that highest emblem of wisdom and virtue, with which Providence has endowed man;
Evagoras
General divine agency credited with aiding or favoring Evagoras.
And from this venture especially the character of Evagoras and his reputation among his associates may be seen:
and my evidence for that belief is this—that the life he lived on earth has been more blessed by fortune and more favored by the gods than theirs.
on the contrary, the Deity took such thought for him that he should honorably assume the throne, that all the preparations which necessarily involved impiety were made by another, while he preserved for Evagoras those means whereby it was possible for him to gain the rule in accordance with piety and justice.