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... intention to metamorphofe foldiers into merchants , loving . peace , and hating war ? But tho ' I declare against large appointments beforehand , which , * A Roman triumph was finely contrived to excite heroifm ; and a fort of tri- umph ...
... intention to metamorphofe foldiers into merchants , loving . peace , and hating war ? But tho ' I declare against large appointments beforehand , which , * A Roman triumph was finely contrived to excite heroifm ; and a fort of tri- umph ...
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... intention ; and hence it is , that in religion great weight is laid upon forms and ceremonies , without much regarding their purpose . These particulars come in afterward , in the progress of morality and religion . What belongs to the ...
... intention ; and hence it is , that in religion great weight is laid upon forms and ceremonies , without much regarding their purpose . These particulars come in afterward , in the progress of morality and religion . What belongs to the ...
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... intention . The practice of England in a fimilar cafe , is no lefs abfurd . Confef- * A perfon unacquainted with the hiftory of law , will imagine that Swift has carried beyond all bounds his fatire against lawyers , in faying , that ...
... intention . The practice of England in a fimilar cafe , is no lefs abfurd . Confef- * A perfon unacquainted with the hiftory of law , will imagine that Swift has carried beyond all bounds his fatire against lawyers , in faying , that ...
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... intention of the categories or predicaments is , to muster every object of human apprehenfion under ten heads : for the categories are given as a complete enumeration of every thing which can be expreffed without compofition and ...
... intention of the categories or predicaments is , to muster every object of human apprehenfion under ten heads : for the categories are given as a complete enumeration of every thing which can be expreffed without compofition and ...
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... intention of them is to refolve all reafoning into its fimple ingredients . The first book of the First Analytics , confifting of forty - fix chap- ters , may be divided into four parts ; the first treating of the con- verfion of ...
... intention of them is to refolve all reafoning into its fimple ingredients . The first book of the First Analytics , confifting of forty - fix chap- ters , may be divided into four parts ; the first treating of the con- verfion of ...
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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?