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... JOHN Purviance , JOHN BRISTED , esq . and the Hon . Mr. WEBSTER , of Congress , the Hon . GEORGE SULLIVAN , of Mas- sachusetts , and the Hon . GEORGE Winchester , of Maryland . The publisher begs leave to add an extract from the review ...
... JOHN Purviance , JOHN BRISTED , esq . and the Hon . Mr. WEBSTER , of Congress , the Hon . GEORGE SULLIVAN , of Mas- sachusetts , and the Hon . GEORGE Winchester , of Maryland . The publisher begs leave to add an extract from the review ...
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... of Congress , in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty - six , by DAVID HOFFMAN , in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Maryland . JOHN D. TOY , PRINTER . TO THE HONOURABLE JOSEPH STORY , LL . D. ONE.
... of Congress , in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty - six , by DAVID HOFFMAN , in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Maryland . JOHN D. TOY , PRINTER . TO THE HONOURABLE JOSEPH STORY , LL . D. ONE.
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... John Lewis De Lolme was born in Geneva , where he was for some time a senator . He resided for several years in England , and wrote there on a variety of topics . He is the author of ' Parallel between the English constitution and the ...
... John Lewis De Lolme was born in Geneva , where he was for some time a senator . He resided for several years in England , and wrote there on a variety of topics . He is the author of ' Parallel between the English constitution and the ...
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... John Williams , Esq . added but little to the work . He is nevertheless entitled to be considered the first editor of this great work . The twelfth edition , with portraits of the judges , appeared in 1793 ; and the thirteenth in 1800 ...
... John Williams , Esq . added but little to the work . He is nevertheless entitled to be considered the first editor of this great work . The twelfth edition , with portraits of the judges , appeared in 1793 ; and the thirteenth in 1800 ...
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... John . Rep . 384. M'Ginnis and Wife v . M'Peake , Penn . Rep . 291 . Bishop v . Selleck , 1 Day's Rep . 299. Dott v . Cunningham , and Dott v . Wilson , 1 Bay's Rep . 453. 457. Shermer v . Shermer's Exs . 1 Wash . Rep . 267. Roy v ...
... John . Rep . 384. M'Ginnis and Wife v . M'Peake , Penn . Rep . 291 . Bishop v . Selleck , 1 Day's Rep . 299. Dott v . Cunningham , and Dott v . Wilson , 1 Bay's Rep . 453. 457. Shermer v . Shermer's Exs . 1 Wash . Rep . 267. Roy v ...
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Page 70 - LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion : bless the LORD, O my soul. PSALM CIV. "DLESS the LORD, O my soul. O LORD *~* my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty : Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Page 65 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, " and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine " origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important " history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected " from all other books, in whatever language they may have been
Page 22 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 71 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 70 - They go up by the mountains ; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over ; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 66 - The two parts of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts; and the unstrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired.
Page 71 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Page 24 - ... of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice, the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 24 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 66 - The two parts of which the SCRIPTURES consist, are connected by a chain of compositions which bear no resemblance in form or style to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts, and the unrestrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired.