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... seem especially adapted and designed for this honourable station . Within their immediate sphere , their influence is inestimable , where it is exerted ; and no substitute can be found for it , where it is wanted . But many reasons ...
... seem especially adapted and designed for this honourable station . Within their immediate sphere , their influence is inestimable , where it is exerted ; and no substitute can be found for it , where it is wanted . But many reasons ...
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... seems no reason why it should not profit by the increasing lights of philosophy and experience ; and advance , with every age , somewhat nearer to perfection . To do our parts , in our generation , towards assisting it in its progress ...
... seems no reason why it should not profit by the increasing lights of philosophy and experience ; and advance , with every age , somewhat nearer to perfection . To do our parts , in our generation , towards assisting it in its progress ...
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... seem trite and barren generalities ; but we have here only spare time to lay down the general abstract principles on which our particular opinions will be founded . We shall carry the same views along with us to our con- tinental ...
... seem trite and barren generalities ; but we have here only spare time to lay down the general abstract principles on which our particular opinions will be founded . We shall carry the same views along with us to our con- tinental ...
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... seems to have allotted the ocean as our portion , and destined us to rule upon the waves , England may keep for a few years a delu- sive appearance of grandeur and exaltation , but she must eventually be undone her real glory , and ...
... seems to have allotted the ocean as our portion , and destined us to rule upon the waves , England may keep for a few years a delu- sive appearance of grandeur and exaltation , but she must eventually be undone her real glory , and ...
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... seems to us to involve a misapprehension of a twofold nature , a misapprehension of the principles which should govern the application of capital punishment , and a misapprehension of the nature of the difficulties attendant upon the ...
... seems to us to involve a misapprehension of a twofold nature , a misapprehension of the principles which should govern the application of capital punishment , and a misapprehension of the nature of the difficulties attendant upon the ...
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Page 319 - And that no man hereafter shall either print or preach to draw the Article aside any way, but shall submit to it in the plain and full meaning thereof; and shall not put his own sense or comment to be the meaning of the Article, but shall take it in the literal and grammatical sense.
Page 101 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 354 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 318 - BEING by God's Ordinance, according to Our just Title, Defender of the Faith, and Supreme Governor of the Church, within these Our Dominions, We hold it most agreeable to this Our Kingly Office, and Our own religious Zeal, to conserve and maintain the Church committed to Our Charge, in Unity of true Religion, and in the Bond of Peace...
Page 162 - So Castlereagh has cut his throat ! — The worst Of this is, — that his own was not the first. So He has cut his throat at last ! — He ! Who ? The man who cut his country's long ago.
Page 444 - Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time. No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity...
Page 471 - Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quern mihi, quem tibi Finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nee Babylonios Tentaris numeros. Ut melius quidquid erit pati, Seu plures hiemes seu tribuit Juppiter ultimam, Quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum. Sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi Spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Page 336 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos— Light and Darkness— And mind and dust— and passions and pure thoughts Mixed, and contending without end or order,— All dormant or destructive.
Page 319 - That for the present, though some differences have been itt raised, yet we take comfort in this, that all Clergymen within our realm have always most willingly subscribed to the Articles established ; which is an argument to us, that they all agree in the true, usual, literal meaning of the said Articles ; and that even in those curious points, in which the present differences lie, men of all sorts take the Articles of the Church of England to be for them ; which is an argument again, that none of...
Page 318 - We have therefore, upon mature deliberation, and with the advice of so many of our Bishops as might conveniently be called together, thought fit to make this declaration following : That the Articles of the Church of England...