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... political , and religious state of the nation , than the merits or the proofs of the great case itself . With re- spect to the queen , there can be no doubt that it would have been greatly more for the interests of her reputation , to ...
... political , and religious state of the nation , than the merits or the proofs of the great case itself . With re- spect to the queen , there can be no doubt that it would have been greatly more for the interests of her reputation , to ...
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... political agitators , has placed herself in the hands of persons , who , to serve their own purposes , have persuaded her to think that the best confutation of the charges against her would be to out - face them . Their own interests ...
... political agitators , has placed herself in the hands of persons , who , to serve their own purposes , have persuaded her to think that the best confutation of the charges against her would be to out - face them . Their own interests ...
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... political and moral compensations . It has disclosed the real condition of the coun- try . By an operation not unlike the agency of chemical attrac- tion , a new sorting has taken place among the various classes of society ; deceptious ...
... political and moral compensations . It has disclosed the real condition of the coun- try . By an operation not unlike the agency of chemical attrac- tion , a new sorting has taken place among the various classes of society ; deceptious ...
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... political demagogues ; and the cause of these demagogues has suffered detriment by the full exposure of the whole machinery of their malice , with every wheel at work , and the whole mystery of iniquity developed to view . No person in ...
... political demagogues ; and the cause of these demagogues has suffered detriment by the full exposure of the whole machinery of their malice , with every wheel at work , and the whole mystery of iniquity developed to view . No person in ...
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... bishops as a matter of political favour , interest , or reward ; but only those who , though when startling at the greatness of the trust , they may be hardly willing to be made bishops , will be 6 The King , the Queen , and the Country .
... bishops as a matter of political favour , interest , or reward ; but only those who , though when startling at the greatness of the trust , they may be hardly willing to be made bishops , will be 6 The King , the Queen , and the Country .
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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.