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... peace with a chastising Providence , by religious and moral reformation ? The nations of antiquity , while they possessed their freedom , that true source of patriotic feeling , were neither too gay to mourn , too luxurious to retrench ...
... peace with a chastising Providence , by religious and moral reformation ? The nations of antiquity , while they possessed their freedom , that true source of patriotic feeling , were neither too gay to mourn , too luxurious to retrench ...
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... peace , secure that they shall not be torn from their families ere morning , to be examined by tortures , or perish in the gloom of a dungeon . From that time , integrity will retire from the seat of justice , and corruption take its ...
... peace , secure that they shall not be torn from their families ere morning , to be examined by tortures , or perish in the gloom of a dungeon . From that time , integrity will retire from the seat of justice , and corruption take its ...
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... peace , as well as their glory . Let us rather look there- fore , to some of the manifold and endless oppressions which would await the hapless survivors . I have generally and faintly sketched some parts of the wretch- edness of losing ...
... peace , as well as their glory . Let us rather look there- fore , to some of the manifold and endless oppressions which would await the hapless survivors . I have generally and faintly sketched some parts of the wretch- edness of losing ...
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... peace or war , has established him our sovereign , has made him the minister of his power , and his image on earth . honour and serve our emperor , is therefore to honour and serve God himself . To Q. Are there not particular motives ...
... peace or war , has established him our sovereign , has made him the minister of his power , and his image on earth . honour and serve our emperor , is therefore to honour and serve God himself . To Q. Are there not particular motives ...
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... peace at this juncture , lay open the sea to France . If governments have been elsewhere blameable , for not informing the mind , and exciting in due time the active courage of the people , the prodigy is not lessened , but only altered ...
... peace at this juncture , lay open the sea to France . If governments have been elsewhere blameable , for not informing the mind , and exciting in due time the active courage of the people , the prodigy is not lessened , but only altered ...
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Page 44 - And they cast dust on their heads, And cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, Wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! For in one hour is she made desolate.
Page 43 - How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Page 44 - And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
Page 44 - ... and cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
Page 128 - And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more ; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.
Page 43 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit. and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 114 - ... the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Page 114 - Thus saith the LORD, Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Page 113 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Page 128 - Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves.