Reflections After Reading; Or, Sketches, Biographical, Ecclesiastical, and HistoricalT. Ward et Company, 1843 - 458 pages |
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... evil , however , people were willing to endure , for , wheresoever he presided , his reputation was sure to draw the principal business into that court ; and though slow he was sure ; his decisions were never reversed ; and the cause ...
... evil , however , people were willing to endure , for , wheresoever he presided , his reputation was sure to draw the principal business into that court ; and though slow he was sure ; his decisions were never reversed ; and the cause ...
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... evil to that generation . When a man advances half a century before his contemporaries , his most judi- cious and benevolent plans accord so ill with popular notions and prevailing sentiments , that they are often impracticable . The ...
... evil to that generation . When a man advances half a century before his contemporaries , his most judi- cious and benevolent plans accord so ill with popular notions and prevailing sentiments , that they are often impracticable . The ...
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... evil spoken of ; if his respectability and felicity make to themselves wings * Bates's rural philosophy , p . 301 . " There is no integrity , or caution , which can guard any man from the effects of that malice against Christ and his ...
... evil spoken of ; if his respectability and felicity make to themselves wings * Bates's rural philosophy , p . 301 . " There is no integrity , or caution , which can guard any man from the effects of that malice against Christ and his ...
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... evil . Parish religion confounds the distinction between the church and the world , a distinction which the Apostles and primitive Christians always observed ; and the parochial minister who attempts to keep it up , and to act upon it ...
... evil . Parish religion confounds the distinction between the church and the world , a distinction which the Apostles and primitive Christians always observed ; and the parochial minister who attempts to keep it up , and to act upon it ...
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... evil was of shorter duration . Oliver Heywood was so loyal , and so much attached to monarchical government , that he was really , though not avowedly , disaffected to Cromwell's administration ; and when he heard that Charles the ...
... evil was of shorter duration . Oliver Heywood was so loyal , and so much attached to monarchical government , that he was really , though not avowedly , disaffected to Cromwell's administration ; and when he heard that Charles the ...
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Page 227 - ... a Liberty to Tender Consciences and that no man shall be disquieted or called in question for differences of opinion in matters of religion which do not disturb the peace of the kingdom...
Page 386 - I tell you, (with the world it would obtain little credit,) that my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution ; so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities, and inclination, which are necessary to manage the helm.
Page 339 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 384 - At length, my dear Marquis, I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac; and under the shadow of my own vine and my own fig-tree, free from the bustle of a camp, and the busy scenes of public life, I am solacing myself with those tranquil enjoyments, of which the soldier, who is ever in pursuit of fame, the statesman, whose watchful days and sleepless nights are spent in devising schemes to promote the welfare of his own, perhaps the ruin of other countries, as if this globe...
Page 395 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; That opened not the house of his prisoners?
Page 209 - Then was I moved of the Lord God to say unto him, " Come down, thou deceiver; dost thou bid people come freely, and take of the water of life freely, and yet thou takest three hundred pounds a year of them for preaching the Scriptures to them.
Page 325 - I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.
Page 308 - The king is not bound to observe the laws of the realm concerning the subjects' rights and liberties, but that his royal will and pleasure, in imposing taxes without consent of Parliament, doth oblige the subjects...
Page 337 - I know I have deserved my punishment, and will be silent under it; but yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with; all these things are irksome to me now; the day unwelcome, and the night so, too; all company and meals I would avoid if it might be...
Page 325 - Where popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State, it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.