The Works of Thomas De Quincey: The Caesars, Essenes, and other papersA. & C. Black, 1862 |
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Page 259 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Page 164 - Finally, the colonies were the best means of promoting tillage, and the culture of vineyards. And though this service, as regarded the Italian colonies, was greatly defeated in succeeding times by the ruinous largesses of corn...
Page 100 - ... himself? Even the more innocent exhibitions, in which brutes only were the sufferers, could not but be mortal to all the finer sensibilities. Five thousand wild animals, torn from their native abodes in the wilderness or forest, were often turned out to be hunted, or for mutual slaughter, in the course of a single exhibition of this nature ; and it sometimes happened (a fact which of itself proclaims the course of the public propensities), that the person at whose expense the shows were exhibited,...
Page 256 - As for their piety towards God, it is very extraordinary : for before sun-rising they speak not a word about profane matters, but put up certain prayers which they have received from their forefathers.
Page 259 - I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne : Nor by the earth ; for it his footstool : neither by Jerusalem ; for it is the city of the great King.