Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes, Volume 2W. Creech, 1774 - Civilization |
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... called to that service , as being the most interested in the welfare of their country . Liften to a good foldier deliver- ing his opinion on that fubject . " Les levées qui fe font par su- " percherie font tout auffi odieufes ; on met ...
... called to that service , as being the most interested in the welfare of their country . Liften to a good foldier deliver- ing his opinion on that fubject . " Les levées qui fe font par su- " percherie font tout auffi odieufes ; on met ...
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... called to the fervice , except in cafe of an actual invafion . Every one of them fhall be intitled to a premium of eight or ten pounds , for enabling him to follow a trade or calling , without being fubjected to corporation - laws . The ...
... called to the fervice , except in cafe of an actual invafion . Every one of them fhall be intitled to a premium of eight or ten pounds , for enabling him to follow a trade or calling , without being fubjected to corporation - laws . The ...
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... called in queftion the utility of the marine focie- ty ; which will reflect honour on the members as long as we have a navy to protect us : they deserve a rank above that of gar- tered knights . That inftitution is the nobleft exertion ...
... called in queftion the utility of the marine focie- ty ; which will reflect honour on the members as long as we have a navy to protect us : they deserve a rank above that of gar- tered knights . That inftitution is the nobleft exertion ...
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... called in queftion the existence of internal actions and paf- fions , laid open to us by internal fenfe ; and there is as little ground for doubting of what we fee . The fenfe of feeing , it is true , is not always correct : through ...
... called in queftion the existence of internal actions and paf- fions , laid open to us by internal fenfe ; and there is as little ground for doubting of what we fee . The fenfe of feeing , it is true , is not always correct : through ...
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... called a monfter , being ftrangely gazed at " and admired by the ignorant . Her figure and form is various , " by reason of the vast variety of subjects that science confiders . " Her voice and countenance are reprefented female , by ...
... called a monfter , being ftrangely gazed at " and admired by the ignorant . Her figure and form is various , " by reason of the vast variety of subjects that science confiders . " Her voice and countenance are reprefented female , by ...
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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 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 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 328 - And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king ; but my lord the king is as an angel of God : do therefore what is good in thine eyes. 28. For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king : yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
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?
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 459 - Behold ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Page 355 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 223 - They have therefore reduced the doctrine of the topics to certain axioms or canons, and difpofed thefe axioms in order under certain heads. This method feems to be more commodious and elegant than that of Ariftotle. Yet it muft be acknowledged, that...