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1  With regard to religion, Napoleon ordered the priests to be brought back and services to be again performed in the churches.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER IX
2  In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VI
3  With regard to religion, as to which in Egypt matters had so easily been settled by Napoleon's visit to a mosque, no results were achieved.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
4  On a third estate the priest, bearing a cross, came to meet him surrounded by children whom, by the count's generosity, he was instructing in reading, writing, and religion.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X
5  And for the first time Sonya felt that out of her pure, quiet love for Nicholas a passionate feeling was beginning to grow up which was stronger than principle, virtue, or religion.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII
6  To the defenders of the laws of Copernicus and Newton, to Voltaire for example, it seemed that the laws of astronomy destroyed religion, and he utilized the law of gravitation as a weapon against religion.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XII
7  They say this, not at all suspecting that thousands of years ago that same law of necessity which with such ardor they are now trying to prove by physiology and comparative zoology was not merely acknowledged by all the religions and all the thinkers, but has never been denied.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VIII
8  The King of Prussia sends his wife to seek the great man's mercy; the Emperor of Austria considers it a favor that this man receives a daughter of the Caesars into his bed; the Pope, the guardian of all that the nations hold sacred, utilizes religion for the aggrandizement of the great man.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
9  Little Nicholas and his education, her brother Andrew, and religion were Princess Mary's joys and consolations; but besides that, since everyone must have personal hopes, Princess Mary in the profoundest depths of her heart had a hidden dream and hope that supplied the chief consolation of her life.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
10  So too, like Voltaire in his time, uninvited defenders of the law of inevitability today use that law as a weapon against religion, though the law of inevitability in history, like the law of Copernicus in astronomy, far from destroying, even strengthens the foundation on which the institutions of state and church are erected.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XII