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... believe or disbelieve every thing as their prejudices or passions dispose them . The result has been , that the higher orders of society , and in general the soberer and sounder part of the nation , have seen and heard enough to induce ...
... believe or disbelieve every thing as their prejudices or passions dispose them . The result has been , that the higher orders of society , and in general the soberer and sounder part of the nation , have seen and heard enough to induce ...
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... believe and propagate . There is not a person of the commonest propriety of thinking , that can pass one of the numerous print or pamphlet shops in our streets without saying to himself - these things should never be in a land where the ...
... believe and propagate . There is not a person of the commonest propriety of thinking , that can pass one of the numerous print or pamphlet shops in our streets without saying to himself - these things should never be in a land where the ...
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... believe me when I say , that I witnessed the display of his surprising faculties with no other feelings , than a sincere gratification that the triumph was complete ; and admiration and delight , that the victory of the Queen was ...
... believe me when I say , that I witnessed the display of his surprising faculties with no other feelings , than a sincere gratification that the triumph was complete ; and admiration and delight , that the victory of the Queen was ...
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... believe that this Nero , to get rid of his wife Octavia , told her " that you have had an adulterous intercourse with your slave , and you shall undergo nominal punishment , but you shall be pardoned . " Re luctantly the confession was ...
... believe that this Nero , to get rid of his wife Octavia , told her " that you have had an adulterous intercourse with your slave , and you shall undergo nominal punishment , but you shall be pardoned . " Re luctantly the confession was ...
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... believe her guilty , you dare not pro- nounce your conscientious opinion . I believe in my conscience , what- ever opinion may prevail as to the consequences , I firmly believe , let the consequences be what they may , that is the ...
... believe her guilty , you dare not pro- nounce your conscientious opinion . I believe in my conscience , what- ever opinion may prevail as to the consequences , I firmly believe , let the consequences be what they may , that is the ...
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Page 436 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Page 435 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 245 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
Page 382 - The person who would treat such a subject must increase the ideal, and diminish the actual horror of the events, so that the pleasure which arises from the poetry which exists in these tempestuous sufferings and crimes may mitigate the pain of the contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring.
Page 146 - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus ; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God ; but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man : and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.
Page 185 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Page 387 - Pah ! I am choked ! There creeps A clinging, black, contaminating mist About me — 'tis substantial, heavy, thick ; I cannot pluck it from me, for it glues My fingers and my limbs to one another, And eats into my sinews, and dissolves My flesh to a pollution, poisoning The subtle, pure, and inmost spirit of life ! My God ! I never knew what the mad felt Before ; for I am mad beyond all doubt ! [Afore wildly.
Page 185 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Page 499 - Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the respective laws and customs of the same ? Sovereign. I solemnly promise so to do.
Page 211 - ... it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.