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... believe to be undeniable : and he is only of sensible men . In some of his combinations of words erroneous in excluding the particular affections , be- the Doctor is singularly unhappy . We have the din cause , in so doing , he deprives ...
... believe to be undeniable : and he is only of sensible men . In some of his combinations of words erroneous in excluding the particular affections , be- the Doctor is singularly unhappy . We have the din cause , in so doing , he deprives ...
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... believe , and forty years after Mr. Gibbon's merit of not disappointing their readers . Yet it is residence , completely abolished their very ludicrous curious to consider , how a body of men so well edu and disgraceful exercises for ...
... believe , and forty years after Mr. Gibbon's merit of not disappointing their readers . Yet it is residence , completely abolished their very ludicrous curious to consider , how a body of men so well edu and disgraceful exercises for ...
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... believe the natives were unacquainted with the use of canoes ; a fact extremely embarrassing to those who indulge themselves in speculating on the genealogy of nations ; because it reduces them to the necessity of supposing that the ...
... believe the natives were unacquainted with the use of canoes ; a fact extremely embarrassing to those who indulge themselves in speculating on the genealogy of nations ; because it reduces them to the necessity of supposing that the ...
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... believe them to be very good subjects ; and we have no doubt but that any further attempt upon their religious liberties , without reconciling them to the Church , would have a direct tendency to render them disaf fected towards the ...
... believe them to be very good subjects ; and we have no doubt but that any further attempt upon their religious liberties , without reconciling them to the Church , would have a direct tendency to render them disaf fected towards the ...
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... believe that the religious world in general will cheerfully unite with me , while I most cordially wish success to the Princess of Wales Yacht , and pray that she may ever sail under the divine protection and blessing ; that the humble ...
... believe that the religious world in general will cheerfully unite with me , while I most cordially wish success to the Princess of Wales Yacht , and pray that she may ever sail under the divine protection and blessing ; that the humble ...
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Page 122 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Page 95 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride ; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 95 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 96 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered, or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? What have they done in the mathematics? Who drinks out of American glasses? or eats from American plates? or wears American coats or gowns?...
Page 77 - But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, gristmills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.
Page 77 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.
Page 95 - ... restores him to health — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride : at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 264 - Are you really my son Esau, or not?" 22 So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Page 218 - ... margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement), all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess.
Page 299 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm...