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... England is neither a sober nor a moral country , and that vice in every shape rears its horrid front ? Does it not prove that there is a radical error in the system ? By the union of the people of England advantages of no trifling ...
... England is neither a sober nor a moral country , and that vice in every shape rears its horrid front ? Does it not prove that there is a radical error in the system ? By the union of the people of England advantages of no trifling ...
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... England , and it rests with you to accelerate or retard that happy consummation . I call upon you to gird yourselves for the contest which is impending , for the hour of conflict is ap- proaching when the people of England will be ...
... England , and it rests with you to accelerate or retard that happy consummation . I call upon you to gird yourselves for the contest which is impending , for the hour of conflict is ap- proaching when the people of England will be ...
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... England has destroyed the manufactures of Ireland . They complain of the Established Church in Ireland as a grievance ; and so it must be admitted to be , when only one in ten of the population belong to the Church . It is just as ...
... England has destroyed the manufactures of Ireland . They complain of the Established Church in Ireland as a grievance ; and so it must be admitted to be , when only one in ten of the population belong to the Church . It is just as ...
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... England , but while I am Minister of England I will hold office by no servile tenure . I will hold office un- shackled by any other obligation than that of consulting the public interest , and providing for the public safety . ' The ...
... England , but while I am Minister of England I will hold office by no servile tenure . I will hold office un- shackled by any other obligation than that of consulting the public interest , and providing for the public safety . ' The ...
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... England to support these measures , by which they would take another guarantee for the content , and love , and willing obedience of the population . If a calamitous time should come , when they must offer to the mass of the people ...
... England to support these measures , by which they would take another guarantee for the content , and love , and willing obedience of the population . If a calamitous time should come , when they must offer to the mass of the people ...
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Page 68 - I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets : who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 363 - What feign'd submission swore : ease would recant Vows made in pain as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Page 13 - Old man ! there is no power in holy men, Nor charm in prayer — nor purifying form Of penitence — nor outward look — nor fast — Nor agony — nor, greater than all these, The innate tortures of that deep despair, Which is remorse without the fear of hell, But all in all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of heaven— can exorcise From out the unbounded spirit, the quick sense Of its own sins, wrongs, sufferance, and revenge Upon itself; there is no future pang Can deal that justice on...
Page 45 - A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned or fear conceived, Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.
Page 111 - For the needy shall not always be forgotten : the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Page 18 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Page 131 - ... they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 289 - Aaron's breast— from which to take counsel, but we have the unchangeable and eternal principles of the moral law to guide us, and only so far as we walk by that guidance can we be permanently a great nation, or our people a happy people.
Page 279 - Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers: And such she was; — her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Pour'd in her lap all gems in sparkling showers.
Page 126 - Fit retribution ! Gaul may champ the bit, And foam in fetters, — but is Earth more free? Did nations combat to make One submit; Or league to teach all kings true sovereignty? What! shall reviving Thraldom again be The patch'd-up idol of enlighten'd days? Shall we, who struck the Lion down, shall we Pay the Wolf homage?