The Remedy for Duelling: A Sermon, Delivered Before the Presbytery of Long-Island, at the Opening of Their Session, at Aquebogue, April 16, 1806 |
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... thing - his moral principle is nothing . His honour is your only security . But is this sufficient ? Are the temptations of power so feeble ; is the public and private interest so inseparable ; are the opportunities of fraud so few ...
... thing - his moral principle is nothing . His honour is your only security . But is this sufficient ? Are the temptations of power so feeble ; is the public and private interest so inseparable ; are the opportunities of fraud so few ...
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... things , to be impartial ; the rich and the honourable to be equal- ly liable to punishment for their crimes with the poor , and , according to their desert , punished with equal severity . But while duellists bear sway , this can never ...
... things , to be impartial ; the rich and the honourable to be equal- ly liable to punishment for their crimes with the poor , and , according to their desert , punished with equal severity . But while duellists bear sway , this can never ...
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... thing ? Nor let any imagine that the influence of this engine of despotism is small ; it is powerful already , and is every year becoming more so , as duelling increases ; and God on- ly knows where its influence will end . The actual ...
... thing ? Nor let any imagine that the influence of this engine of despotism is small ; it is powerful already , and is every year becoming more so , as duelling increases ; and God on- ly knows where its influence will end . The actual ...
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... depending - when they need your votes to gratify their ambition or satiate their avarice , then indeed they sympathize most tenderly with the people . The people are every thing ; their wishes are sacred , and their voice is the voice of ...
... depending - when they need your votes to gratify their ambition or satiate their avarice , then indeed they sympathize most tenderly with the people . The people are every thing ; their wishes are sacred , and their voice is the voice of ...
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... things should exist ; but while it does exist they must fight or encounter disgrace . Is it not our duty to undeceive these deluded men - to rescue from death the reluctant martyrs of honour ? Must they be haunted all their days , and ...
... things should exist ; but while it does exist they must fight or encounter disgrace . Is it not our duty to undeceive these deluded men - to rescue from death the reluctant martyrs of honour ? Must they be haunted all their days , and ...
Common terms and phrases
abhorrence alarming ANTI-DUELLING ASSOCIATION appointed arrest assassination ASSOCIATION OF NEW-YORK avenger avenger of blood awake become blessing blood candidates cause challenge christian churches civil liberty committee common conduct confidence conscience crime of duelling criminal despise despotic destroy disgrace dreaded duellist effect efficacy election Elevate ellists equal laws evil example exertion favour fear feelings fluence gallows guilt guilty men hands are stained hath heaven impunity individual infamy influence insulted intrust JOHN BROOME judgments justice land LEBBEUS LOOMIS legislate maxims ment moral character moral principle murder nation neighbour officers of government party patriotism penalty perjury phalanx pledge political practice of duelling PRESBYTERY prevalence of duelling profess protection public mind public opinion punish reason rectitude religion remedy rence restrain revenge reward rulers savage spirit stand temptation things tion turned away backward University of California unprincipled vate victim voice vote widow withhold our suffrage
Popular passages
Page 26 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 32 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Page 40 - Wash you, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; Cease to do evil; learn to do well; Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 4 - If you thus behave yourselves, and so become a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well...
Page 2 - And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off ; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Page 5 - And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Page 6 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 37 - Every year the duellist is cutting down the neighbor of somebody. Every year, and many times in the year, a father is brought dead or dying to his family, or a son laid breathless at the feet of his parents ; and every year you are patronizing by your votes...
Page 37 - ... would you then think the crime a small one ? Would you honor with your confidence, and elevate to power by your vote, the guilty monster ? And what would you think of your...
Page 36 - And now let me ask you solemnly ; with these considerations in view, will you persist in your attachment to these guilty men ? Will you any longer, either deliberately or thoughtlessly, vote for them ? Will you renounce allegiance to your maker, and cast the bible behind your back? Will you confide in men void of the fear of God and destitute of moral principle? Will you intrust life to MURDERERS — liberty to DESPOTS?