Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical Pieces, with New Translations, and an Introduction, Volume 2J. Miller, 1809 |
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... virtue , and are not in- ferior to men of the noblest descent . They had rather be called " sons of the earth , " provided it be their own earth ( their own native country ) and act like men at home , than being destitute of house or ...
... virtue , and are not in- ferior to men of the noblest descent . They had rather be called " sons of the earth , " provided it be their own earth ( their own native country ) and act like men at home , than being destitute of house or ...
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... virtue's sake . If there were great difficulty in the enterprise , they did well in not going about it rashly , but upon ad- vice and consideration . Though for my own part , when 1 call to mind with how unexpected an importunity and ...
... virtue's sake . If there were great difficulty in the enterprise , they did well in not going about it rashly , but upon ad- vice and consideration . Though for my own part , when 1 call to mind with how unexpected an importunity and ...
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... virtue or nobility ? You may well allow a people , that has felt the heavy yoke of slavery to be wise , and learned , and noble enough , to know what is fit to be done to the tyrant that has op- pressed them ; though they neither ...
... virtue or nobility ? You may well allow a people , that has felt the heavy yoke of slavery to be wise , and learned , and noble enough , to know what is fit to be done to the tyrant that has op- pressed them ; though they neither ...
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... virtue , and conduct , I will not disgrace them so much , as to compare you to them , or them to you ) but whosoever , I say , among the dregs of that common people has but sucked in this principle , that he was not born for his prince ...
... virtue , and conduct , I will not disgrace them so much , as to compare you to them , or them to you ) but whosoever , I say , among the dregs of that common people has but sucked in this principle , that he was not born for his prince ...
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... virtue of some inherent right in him- self ? Sallust indeed makes C. Memmius , a tribune of the people , in an invective speech of his against the pride of the nobility , and their escaping unpunished , howsoever they misbehaved ...
... virtue of some inherent right in him- self ? Sallust indeed makes C. Memmius , a tribune of the people , in an invective speech of his against the pride of the nobility , and their escaping unpunished , howsoever they misbehaved ...
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Page 58 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 89 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Page 622 - Thus much I should perhaps have said, though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones ; and had none to cry to, but with the prophet, ' O earth, earth, earth ! ' to tell the very soil itself what her perverse inhabitants are deaf to...
Page 70 - I will be thy king: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy judges of whom thou saidst, "Give me a king and princes?" I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.
Page 594 - And what will they at best say of us, and of the whole English name, but scoffingly, as of that foolish builder mentioned by our Saviour, who began to build a tower, and was not able to finish it ? Where is this goodly tower of a commonwealth, which the English boasted they would build to overshadow kings, and be another Rome in the west...
Page 596 - And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them ; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page 86 - They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
Page 80 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 83 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Page 414 - For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up ; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. 10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.