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... common strength and dexterity . With respect to the manner in which the defence of Chris- tianity may be conducted , there is room for much diversity of proceeding . Mr. V. M. observes , that " the object which the founder of this ...
... common strength and dexterity . With respect to the manner in which the defence of Chris- tianity may be conducted , there is room for much diversity of proceeding . Mr. V. M. observes , that " the object which the founder of this ...
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... Common , Conse- quential damages . Under each head the appropriate plead- dings and evidence are brought forward with a neatness and precision which does credit to the judgment of the compiler ; and renders his work a safe and useful ...
... Common , Conse- quential damages . Under each head the appropriate plead- dings and evidence are brought forward with a neatness and precision which does credit to the judgment of the compiler ; and renders his work a safe and useful ...
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... common sense of mankind has long since exploded it as an indefinite and unfounded maxim , fit only for the fraudulent purposes of arbitrary power . The right to exercise any power what- ever must depend upon the purposes to which it is ...
... common sense of mankind has long since exploded it as an indefinite and unfounded maxim , fit only for the fraudulent purposes of arbitrary power . The right to exercise any power what- ever must depend upon the purposes to which it is ...
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... common sense of the sober and judicious part of mankind , It is of con- siderable duration , is never accompanied with any great degree of fever , and very often with no fever at all . " Now , although the metaphysical distinction ...
... common sense of the sober and judicious part of mankind , It is of con- siderable duration , is never accompanied with any great degree of fever , and very often with no fever at all . " Now , although the metaphysical distinction ...
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... common , is thus described . " This name of Roundhead comming so opertunely in , I shall make a little digression to tell how it came up . When pu ritanisme grew into a faction , the zealotts distinguisht them- selves , both men and ...
... common , is thus described . " This name of Roundhead comming so opertunely in , I shall make a little digression to tell how it came up . When pu ritanisme grew into a faction , the zealotts distinguisht them- selves , both men and ...
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Page 385 - For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee : 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
Page 278 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Page 91 - The positive checks to population are extremely various, and include every cause, whether arising from vice or misery, which in any degree contributes to shorten the natural duration of human life. Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine.
Page 385 - I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Page 279 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...
Page 465 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 98 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man...
Page 308 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 280 - His funds were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained therefore competent to that expensive establishment which his reputation, added to a hospitable temper, had in some measure imposed upon him ; and to those donations which real distress has a right to claim from opulence. He made no pretensions to that vivacity which fascinates, or to that wit which dazzles, and frequently imposes on the understanding. More...
Page 47 - This soone past into a mutuall friendship betweene them, and though she innocently thought nothing of love, yet was she glad to have acquir'd such a friend, who had wisedome and vertue enough to be trusted with her...