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... because the vifible good tendency of the tax reconciled all the world to it . Charles , befide , was a favourite of his people ; and juftly , as he fhewed by every act his affection for them . Had our first Charles been fuch a favourite ...
... because the vifible good tendency of the tax reconciled all the world to it . Charles , befide , was a favourite of his people ; and juftly , as he fhewed by every act his affection for them . Had our first Charles been fuch a favourite ...
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... because the state may be overwhelmed before we even dream of danger . Suppofe only , that a British King , accomplished in the art of war , and beloved by his foldiers , heads his own troops in a war with France ; and after more than ...
... because the state may be overwhelmed before we even dream of danger . Suppofe only , that a British King , accomplished in the art of war , and beloved by his foldiers , heads his own troops in a war with France ; and after more than ...
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... because it never fails to enflame compaffion . Indigent vice , on the contrary , raises indignation more than pi- ty ( a ) ; and therefore can have little profpect of relief . What a * The Italians are not more remarkable for a ...
... because it never fails to enflame compaffion . Indigent vice , on the contrary , raises indignation more than pi- ty ( a ) ; and therefore can have little profpect of relief . What a * The Italians are not more remarkable for a ...
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... because it has been much infisted on in antecedent parts of this work . A The following bad effects are more of a political nature . great town is a profeffed enemy to the free circulation of money . The current coin is accumulated in ...
... because it has been much infisted on in antecedent parts of this work . A The following bad effects are more of a political nature . great town is a profeffed enemy to the free circulation of money . The current coin is accumulated in ...
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... , that in America there is not to be seen a lion , a tiger , a panther , or any other Afiatic qua- druped of a hot climate : not , fays he , for want of a land - paf- fage ; fage ; but because the cold climate of Tartary , 79 ...
... , that in America there is not to be seen a lion , a tiger , a panther , or any other Afiatic qua- druped of a hot climate : not , fays he , for want of a land - paf- fage ; fage ; but because the cold climate of Tartary , 79 ...
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Page 474 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 155 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Page 460 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 472 - And when Abraham saw that the Man blessed not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of Heaven and Earth?
Page 473 - Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not ; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him.
Page 407 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 436 - Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 449 - And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said unto the people. There are six days in which men ought to work in them therefore come and be healed; and not on the Sabbath day...
Page 407 - Lord be pleafed with thoufands of rams, or with ten thou" fands of rivers of oil ? fhall I give my firft-born for my tranfgref" fion, the fruit of my body for the fin of my foul ? He hath " fhewed thee, O man, what is good : and what doth the Lord " require of thee, but to do juftly, to love mercy, and to walk "humbly with thy God?
Page 255 - ... and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, whoever came into the world without having an innate idea of them?