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... effect of his efforts to better his fortune , terferes ; and then adds , that it has is as beneficial to the public , as if their pleased God , within these few years , motive had not been selfish . The poor to give us a most awful ...
... effect of his efforts to better his fortune , terferes ; and then adds , that it has is as beneficial to the public , as if their pleased God , within these few years , motive had not been selfish . The poor to give us a most awful ...
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... effect of all elections so con- stituted in Great Britain , where the power of conferring the office has al- ways been found to be vested in those who named the candidates , not in those who selected an individual from the candidates ...
... effect of all elections so con- stituted in Great Britain , where the power of conferring the office has al- ways been found to be vested in those who named the candidates , not in those who selected an individual from the candidates ...
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... effect produced upon the minds of the people by this factitious power , is lost , and the government weakened : but in proportion as the government is less able to command , the people should be more willing to obey ; therefore , a re ...
... effect produced upon the minds of the people by this factitious power , is lost , and the government weakened : but in proportion as the government is less able to command , the people should be more willing to obey ; therefore , a re ...
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... effects of our religious , politics , they appear to have scarcely political , and economical institutions , advanced ... effect by pressing the body in such a way , as to destroy the infant in the womb ; which violence not unfrequently ...
... effects of our religious , politics , they appear to have scarcely political , and economical institutions , advanced ... effect by pressing the body in such a way , as to destroy the infant in the womb ; which violence not unfrequently ...
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... effects of such institutions , and of their effects combined with all the peculiar circumstances in which any nation may be placed . 2ndly . An affectation of quickness in observation , an intuitive glance that requires only a moment ...
... effects of such institutions , and of their effects combined with all the peculiar circumstances in which any nation may be placed . 2ndly . An affectation of quickness in observation , an intuitive glance that requires only a moment ...
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Page 217 - The condition of man after the fall of Adam is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and works, to faith, and calling upon God ; wherefore we have no power to do good works, pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 111 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Page 134 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 3 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 134 - 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 151 - 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 111 - The object is, to give to children resources that will endure as long as life endures — habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy, — occupations that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and therefore death less terrible...
Page 217 - Original Sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk;) but it is the fault and corruption of the Nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam...
Page 168 - ... forensic skill, elegant literature, and all the highest attainments of human genius, were within his reach ; but he thought the noblest occupation of a man was to make other men happy and free ; and in that straight line he went on for fifty years, without one side-look, without one yielding thought, without one motive in his heart which he might not have laid open to the view of God and man.
Page 257 - Latin ; and then go on to another fable, till he be also perfect in that, not omitting what he is already perfect in, but sometimes reviewing that, to. keep it in his memory. And when he comes to write, let these be set him for copies; which, with the exercise of his hand; will also advance him in Latin. This being a more imperfect way than by talking Latin unto him, the formation of the verbs first, and afterwards the de.clensions of the nouns...