Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes, Volume 2W. Creech, 1774 - Civilization |
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... matter , in the prefent depravity of manners , of greater importance than any other that concerns the police of Britain . A perpetual law of that kind , by promoting industry , would prove a fovereign remedy against mobs and riots ...
... matter , in the prefent depravity of manners , of greater importance than any other that concerns the police of Britain . A perpetual law of that kind , by promoting industry , would prove a fovereign remedy against mobs and riots ...
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... matter of much delicacy , it is propofed , that in every fhire a special com- miffion be given to certain landholders of rank and figure , to raife recruits out of the lower claffes , felecting always those who are the least useful at ...
... matter of much delicacy , it is propofed , that in every fhire a special com- miffion be given to certain landholders of rank and figure , to raife recruits out of the lower claffes , felecting always those who are the least useful at ...
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... matters of fupreme importance were refer- ved to a council of state , held generally in the King's presence . These boards , all of them , were compofed of men experienced in the arts of war and of peace the council of ftate was ...
... matters of fupreme importance were refer- ved to a council of state , held generally in the King's presence . These boards , all of them , were compofed of men experienced in the arts of war and of peace the council of ftate was ...
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... matter of religion to preferve their divine blood pure and un- mixed . It was the chief article of the Peruvian creed , upon which eve- ry other article of their religion depended , that the Inca family were were children of their great ...
... matter of religion to preferve their divine blood pure and un- mixed . It was the chief article of the Peruvian creed , upon which eve- ry other article of their religion depended , that the Inca family were were children of their great ...
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... by the latter we perceive , that the different links which compofe the chain of reafoning , are all connected together by the fame relation . O 2 We • We can reafon about matters of opinion and belief Sk . I. 1 . 107 REASON .
... by the latter we perceive , that the different links which compofe the chain of reafoning , are all connected together by the fame relation . O 2 We • We can reafon about matters of opinion and belief Sk . I. 1 . 107 REASON .
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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...