Considerations Upon War, Upon Cruelty in General: And Religious Cruelty in Particular. Also, an Attempt to Prove that Everlasting Punishments are Inconsistent with the Divine Attributes. ... |
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... laws of nature , and consequently are either extremely pufillanimous , or infatuated by a moft pernicious and deftructive spirit of enthufiafm , -a Spirit which , if it generally prevailed in any nation , must be the means of that ...
... laws of nature , and consequently are either extremely pufillanimous , or infatuated by a moft pernicious and deftructive spirit of enthufiafm , -a Spirit which , if it generally prevailed in any nation , must be the means of that ...
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... laws , our liberties , and all that is dear to us ? But were they to happen , yet all those ineftimable benefits might be preserved by fuch a militia as we are capable of forming " .蘩 To the want of this fecurity at home , our · late ...
... laws , our liberties , and all that is dear to us ? But were they to happen , yet all those ineftimable benefits might be preserved by fuch a militia as we are capable of forming " .蘩 To the want of this fecurity at home , our · late ...
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... laws and liberties , and fubmit to the Roman yoke . Ar my leifure I may very probably give you some farther thoughts on the subjects of Cruelty and War . с Eneid . 1. vi ... Effay ESSAY I 19 OF CRUELTY , AND OF WA R. 18 A LETTER to the ...
... laws and liberties , and fubmit to the Roman yoke . Ar my leifure I may very probably give you some farther thoughts on the subjects of Cruelty and War . с Eneid . 1. vi ... Effay ESSAY I 19 OF CRUELTY , AND OF WA R. 18 A LETTER to the ...
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... law , places set apart on purpose for such cruel spectacles , which were frequented by the great vulgar as well as the fmall ? and where not only mere ani- mals were made to fight with one another , but men hired to do the fame ; and ...
... law , places set apart on purpose for such cruel spectacles , which were frequented by the great vulgar as well as the fmall ? and where not only mere ani- mals were made to fight with one another , but men hired to do the fame ; and ...
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... ftreets . Tho ' thofe , who were caught do- ing so , were bastinadoed for it ; yet neceffity , which has no law , made the evil increase : infomuch infomuch that feveral children were stolen and eaten , worn and of WAR . 57.
... ftreets . Tho ' thofe , who were caught do- ing so , were bastinadoed for it ; yet neceffity , which has no law , made the evil increase : infomuch infomuch that feveral children were stolen and eaten , worn and of WAR . 57.
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Page 119 - For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of 'Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people : and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Page 362 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance...
Page 104 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Page 447 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 356 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 362 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 106 - Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
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Page 450 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 433 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.