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... expect great matters . ' Tis enough , that at Christmas you have empty Christmas tales fit for the chimney - corner . To begin , there- fore , December 15th ( here 25th ) , Christmas - day , about one in the morning , I went a ...
... expect great matters . ' Tis enough , that at Christmas you have empty Christmas tales fit for the chimney - corner . To begin , there- fore , December 15th ( here 25th ) , Christmas - day , about one in the morning , I went a ...
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... expect anything remarkable from me all the following week , for I have spent it in getting a pair of gloves , and think , too , I have had a quick despatch : you will per- haps wonder at it , and think I talk like a traveller ; but I ...
... expect anything remarkable from me all the following week , for I have spent it in getting a pair of gloves , and think , too , I have had a quick despatch : you will per- haps wonder at it , and think I talk like a traveller ; but I ...
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... expect any great matter ) to the next chapter of my history . " The news here is , that the Dutch have taken Lochem from the Bishop of Munster , and he , in thanks , has taken and killed five or six hundred of their men . The French ...
... expect any great matter ) to the next chapter of my history . " The news here is , that the Dutch have taken Lochem from the Bishop of Munster , and he , in thanks , has taken and killed five or six hundred of their men . The French ...
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... expect this week a prorogation , and then the pri- soners will be enlarged . There have been great endeavours against our little friend ; but the air is now grown very clear , and the season toward the end of a stormy winter puts us in ...
... expect this week a prorogation , and then the pri- soners will be enlarged . There have been great endeavours against our little friend ; but the air is now grown very clear , and the season toward the end of a stormy winter puts us in ...
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... expecting my last resolution upon it , declaring that you can- not proceed to any new matter till you receive it ; but upon the whole matter , you must always know my mind and reso- lution is , not only to insist upon the having my flag ...
... expecting my last resolution upon it , declaring that you can- not proceed to any new matter till you receive it ; but upon the whole matter , you must always know my mind and reso- lution is , not only to insist upon the having my flag ...
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Page 323 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Page 450 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 320 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 175 - I were not extremely sensible of them, and did not lay hold on this opportunity to testify to the world how much I am obliged to be, and how much I am, MY LORD, Your lordship's most humble and most obedient servant, JOHN LOCKE.
Page 396 - The faculty which God has given man to supply the want of clear and certain knowledge, in cases where that cannot be had, is judgment : whereby the mind takes its ideas to agree or disagree ; or, which is the same, any proposition to be true or false, without perceiving a demonstrative evidence in the proofs.
Page 33 - ... what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Page 123 - To choose, is to will one thing before. another; and to will, is to bend our souls to the having or doing of that which they see to be good: Goodness is seen with the eye of the Understanding; and the light of that eye is Reason : so that two principal fountains there are of Human Action, Knowledge, and Will; which Will in things tending towards any end is termed Choice. Concerning Knowledge; 'Behold...
Page 369 - ... it being no more impossible to conceive that God should annex such ideas to such motions, with which they have no similitude, than that he should annex the idea of pain to the motion of a piece of steel dividing our flesh, with which that idea hath no resemblance.
Page 322 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 218 - Gates, and for not thinking that I made a long stay there. I hope we shall meet again in due time, and then I should be glad to have your judgment upon some of my mystical fancies. The Son of man, Dan. vii. I take to be the same with the Word of God upon the White Horse in Heaven, Apoc. xix. and him to be the same with the Man Child, Apoc. xii. for both are to rule the nations with a rod of iron ; but whence are you certain that the Ancient of Days is Christ? Does Christ anywhere sit upon the throne?