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... suppose , that the particular affec - curacy , the shades of merit , and the degree of tions are themselves ultimate principles of ac- immortality conferred . tion , instead of convenient instruments of a more general principle . Why ...
... suppose , that the particular affec - curacy , the shades of merit , and the degree of tions are themselves ultimate principles of ac- immortality conferred . tion , instead of convenient instruments of a more general principle . Why ...
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... suppose that such by the meekest and most profound humility . " writers are abused , because they are feared ; and not answered , because they are unanswer- 1 cannot read the name of Malthus without adding able . While every body was ...
... suppose that such by the meekest and most profound humility . " writers are abused , because they are feared ; and not answered , because they are unanswer- 1 cannot read the name of Malthus without adding able . While every body was ...
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... suppose , is meant by the name of Jacobinism , than we ourselves do ; but we were highly amused with this proof , ab ebriis sutoribus , of the prostration of Europe , the last hour of human felicity , the perdition of man , discovered ...
... suppose , is meant by the name of Jacobinism , than we ourselves do ; but we were highly amused with this proof , ab ebriis sutoribus , of the prostration of Europe , the last hour of human felicity , the perdition of man , discovered ...
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... suppose the savage state permanent , we must suppose the numbers of those who com- pose it to be stationary , and the various pas- sions by which men have actually emerged from it to be extinct ; and this is to suppose man a very ...
... suppose the savage state permanent , we must suppose the numbers of those who com- pose it to be stationary , and the various pas- sions by which men have actually emerged from it to be extinct ; and this is to suppose man a very ...
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... suppose , that a spirited and commercial people would , in spite of the example of America , ever consent to abandon their sovereignty over an import- ant colony , without a struggle . Endless blood and treasure will be exhausted to ...
... suppose , that a spirited and commercial people would , in spite of the example of America , ever consent to abandon their sovereignty over an import- ant colony , without a struggle . Endless blood and treasure will be exhausted to ...
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Page 93 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there ; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
Page 179 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good 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 179 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Page 93 - 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 319 - If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the fry of fish frequent the margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement), all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess.
Page 141 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Page 63 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland; or as they did enjoy in the reign of King Charles II.; and their Majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a Parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 431 - I believe, that no act in itself unjust, immoral, or wicked, can ever be justified or excused by, or under pretence or colour, that it was done either for the good of the church, or in obedience to any ecclesiastical power whatsoever.
Page 113 - 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 submissions on the other.
Page 113 - 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.