The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks: Or, An Inquiry Into the Circumstances which Give Rise to Influence and Authority, in the Different Members of SocietyW. Blackwood, 1806 - 296 pages |
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... rendering Lectures , formerly considered as useful only to lawyers , the most important schools of general education . From the first establishment of the University , it had been the custom to employ the Latin language in all ...
... rendering Lectures , formerly considered as useful only to lawyers , the most important schools of general education . From the first establishment of the University , it had been the custom to employ the Latin language in all ...
Page xiii
... rendered it still more difficult for the students , now unaccustomed to follow the compli- cated arrangement of a Latin period , to compre- hend , with facility and accuracy , the lectures on Roman Law , which still continued to be ...
... rendered it still more difficult for the students , now unaccustomed to follow the compli- cated arrangement of a Latin period , to compre- hend , with facility and accuracy , the lectures on Roman Law , which still continued to be ...
Page xxix
... rendering them objects of more cursory observation ; that it may even reconcile us to flagitious crimes , which , from particular circum- stances , we have associated with some of the higher virtues ; but all such effects of custom are ...
... rendering them objects of more cursory observation ; that it may even reconcile us to flagitious crimes , which , from particular circum- stances , we have associated with some of the higher virtues ; but all such effects of custom are ...
Page xxxiii
... renders himself the object of merited punishment . For these reasons , it is on the virtue of Justice , and on that virtue alone , that Laws , the object of which is to maintain . d rights and repress injuries , must be altogether ...
... renders himself the object of merited punishment . For these reasons , it is on the virtue of Justice , and on that virtue alone , that Laws , the object of which is to maintain . d rights and repress injuries , must be altogether ...
Page xxxix
... rendered unnecessary and un- philosophical , all historical assertions resting on * In the Introduction to the Origin of the Distinction of Ranks . With regard to the direct effects of climate on the human mind , see Hume's Essays ...
... rendered unnecessary and un- philosophical , all historical assertions resting on * In the Introduction to the Origin of the Distinction of Ranks . With regard to the direct effects of climate on the human mind , see Hume's Essays ...
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Page 134 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 11 - And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn : and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.
Page 239 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 131 - And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people ? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
Page 71 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household. For all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 72 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 42 - And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man : abide with me.
Page 129 - Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man " of valour, and he was the son of an harlot, and " Gilead begat Jephthah. " And Gilead' s wife bare him sons; and his " wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, ** and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our ** father's house ; for thou art the son of a strange
Page 129 - And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Page 96 - Lacedemonians, that honest people, more virtuous than polite, rose up all to a man, and with the greatest respect received him among them. The Athenians being suddenly touched with a sense of the Spartan virtue, and their own degeneracy, gave a thunder of applause ; and. the old man cried out, " The Athenians understand what is good, but the Lacedemonians practise it