Archibald Alexander Quotes
Men are satisfied commonly if they can so regulate their lives as to escape the censure of men, and the disgrace which follows wicked actions.
Archibald Alexander, 1772-1851, Presbyterian Cleric, First Professor of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, “A Practical View Of Regeneration,” Princeton Theological Review, 1836
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A Bill was being debated to control theaters and plays. At the time in England, playwrights would commonly write dialoge ridiculing politicians of the day. Lord Chesterfield was opposed to the proposed cencorship.
A conservative Calvinist weekly periodical. Just as today, there were few politicians who could stand up to such a test.
This text, generally considered the most important of all the Hindu works is believed to be the guidance given by Lord Krishna, the most important of the God figures, to has friend and devotee Arjuna. It originally was an episode of the enormous Mahabharata, the history of the ancient world written originally in Sanskrit. The date is approximate and different scholars have dated it from 500 BC to 50 BC. The Bhagavad Gita is generally regarded as the most concise description of Hindu philosophy. For Christians this notion is not a general one although it has evolved very strongly outside of religion in some subcultures such as Spain. But for Islam and the Hindu religion this notion is an integral component of the religious philosophy.
Archibald Alexander was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He served for 9 years as the President of Hampden–Sydney College in Virginia and for 39 years as Princeton Theological Seminary's first professor from 1812 to 1851.
