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... authority . * We may further , perhaps , be allowed to mention , that the reputation of Rhodes as a learned and polished city , was nowise inferior to her celebrity as a first - rate empo- rium . Towards the termination of the republic ...
... authority . * We may further , perhaps , be allowed to mention , that the reputation of Rhodes as a learned and polished city , was nowise inferior to her celebrity as a first - rate empo- rium . Towards the termination of the republic ...
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... authority of Holy Writ , and therefore takes other topicks to confirm the relation of Moses con- cerning the beginning of the world , and the peopling of it by a natural increase . I. From the novity of History , That no authentick ...
... authority of Holy Writ , and therefore takes other topicks to confirm the relation of Moses con- cerning the beginning of the world , and the peopling of it by a natural increase . I. From the novity of History , That no authentick ...
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... authorities , and from his own long experience , given here a clear , though brief account of the Greenland trade in general , and of every thing be- longing to it , that may contribute to the successful carry- ing it on in this kingdom ...
... authorities , and from his own long experience , given here a clear , though brief account of the Greenland trade in general , and of every thing be- longing to it , that may contribute to the successful carry- ing it on in this kingdom ...
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... authority ; here under is a true list of the number of all the ships which have gone from Holland for the whale - fishing , from the year 1675 inclusive , to the present year 1722 exclusive ; with the number of whales they have kill'd ...
... authority ; here under is a true list of the number of all the ships which have gone from Holland for the whale - fishing , from the year 1675 inclusive , to the present year 1722 exclusive ; with the number of whales they have kill'd ...
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... authority and colour of the law ) lay snares to oppress and plunder one of this business , for only getting such a profit by his business , as may enable him to discharge the obligations mentioned in the foregoing propositions ! We go ...
... authority and colour of the law ) lay snares to oppress and plunder one of this business , for only getting such a profit by his business , as may enable him to discharge the obligations mentioned in the foregoing propositions ! We go ...
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Page 112 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 437 - When the Son of Man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory: and before Him shall be gathered all nations; and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats; and He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say to them on His right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Page 480 - We^ the people, ought to be made sensible, that it is not in breaking the laws of commerce, which are the laws of nature, and consequently the laws of God, that we are to place our hope of softening the Divine displeasure to remove any calamity under which we suffer, or which hangs over us.
Page 169 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
Page 181 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 460 - The laboring people are only poor, because they are numerous. Numbers in their nature imply poverty. In a fair distribution among a vast multitude, none can have much. That class of dependent pensioners called the rich, is so extremely small, that if all their throats were cut, and a distribution made of all they consume in a year, it would not give a bit of bread and cheese for one night's supper to those who labor, and who in reality feed both the pensioners and themselves.
Page 437 - I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat : I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I was a stranger, and ye took me in : naked, and ye clothed me : I was sick, and ye visited me : I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 486 - As to what is said, in a physical and moral view, against the home consumption of spirits, experience has long since taught me very little to respect the declamations on that subject — whether the thunder of the laws, or the thunder of eloquence, «' is hurled on gin
Page 36 - I cannot but note how from hence it appears, that the glory, the strength, the riches, the trade, and all that's valuable in a nation, as to its figure in the world, depends upon the number of its people, be they never so mean or poor...
Page 466 - ... the benign and wise disposer of all things, who obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.