Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Theoreon ..., Volume 2James Munroe, 1853 - Conduct of life |
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... least not so bad as he seems , knows that he can say any thing he pleases about my style of writing without much annoying me . I am not very vulnerable on these points : but all the while there is a titillating pleasure to him in being ...
... least not so bad as he seems , knows that he can say any thing he pleases about my style of writing without much annoying me . I am not very vulnerable on these points : but all the while there is a titillating pleasure to him in being ...
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... least of the poor people on his lands proprietors . The cottier system in Ireland has naturally frightened large proprietors and the public generally , and made them very averse to small tenancies in land or small proprietors . But the ...
... least of the poor people on his lands proprietors . The cottier system in Ireland has naturally frightened large proprietors and the public generally , and made them very averse to small tenancies in land or small proprietors . But the ...
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... least it grinds some corn , an excuse which many kings and governors , authors and clamorous persons of various kinds cannot plead for their doings — which are often all noise ; and the corn is not ground by them , but trodden down ...
... least it grinds some corn , an excuse which many kings and governors , authors and clamorous persons of various kinds cannot plead for their doings — which are often all noise ; and the corn is not ground by them , but trodden down ...
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... least tenacity to it . The objects then of government , briefly stated , should be commensurate with those wants of humanity which cannot be supplied at all , or as well , by individual action , or by any corporate body less than the ...
... least tenacity to it . The objects then of government , briefly stated , should be commensurate with those wants of humanity which cannot be supplied at all , or as well , by individual action , or by any corporate body less than the ...
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... least deserve attention . What is wanted is to bring more intellectual power within com- mand of the heads of departments , and more- over that this power should neither be elicited in a hostile manner , nor on the other hand that it ...
... least deserve attention . What is wanted is to bring more intellectual power within com- mand of the heads of departments , and more- over that this power should neither be elicited in a hostile manner , nor on the other hand that it ...
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Page 155 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 156 - Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law...
Page 6 - And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.
Page 230 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 145 - If we then cease taking and plundering the infidel ships, and making slaves of the seamen and passengers, our lands will become of no value for want of cultivation; the rents of houses in the city will sink one half; and the revenues of government arising from its share of prizes be totally destroyed!
Page 156 - Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 170 - It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable.
Page 155 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Page 229 - Ille potens sui Laetusque deget, cui licet in diem Dixisse, ' Vixi : cras vel atra Nube polum Pater occupato ' Vel sole puro : non tamen irritum, 45 Quodcumque retro est, efficiet : neque Diffinget infectumque reddet, Quod fugiens semel hora vexit.