The Genius and Design of the Domestic Constitution, with Its Untransferable Obligations and Peculiar Advantages |
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Page vi
... reader , then , be in pursuit of this " - rent idea in morals , this matrix of a better order of things , " let him feel no disappointment , though he should hear both philosophy and ethics say , it is not in us — or human sagacity , it ...
... reader , then , be in pursuit of this " - rent idea in morals , this matrix of a better order of things , " let him feel no disappointment , though he should hear both philosophy and ethics say , it is not in us — or human sagacity , it ...
Page x
... reader may perhaps now imagine , that , in such a case , the account must come to a close , and that one is shut up to the absolute necessity of merely saying " There is no hope ; no ! " But I am far , very far indeed , from either ...
... reader may perhaps now imagine , that , in such a case , the account must come to a close , and that one is shut up to the absolute necessity of merely saying " There is no hope ; no ! " But I am far , very far indeed , from either ...
Page xi
... reader . At the same time , he owes it to himself to state , that no individual can ever be more sensible than he is , of the imperfections which may perhaps be de- tected in every following section . In sincerity he says this , from a ...
... reader . At the same time , he owes it to himself to state , that no individual can ever be more sensible than he is , of the imperfections which may perhaps be de- tected in every following section . In sincerity he says this , from a ...
Page xii
... reader comes to peruse the proof of its fulfilment , he will , I presume , see no obscurity whatever , in the prophecy itself . There are a very few quotations , perhaps three or four , in the following pages , where the name of the ...
... reader comes to peruse the proof of its fulfilment , he will , I presume , see no obscurity whatever , in the prophecy itself . There are a very few quotations , perhaps three or four , in the following pages , where the name of the ...
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... reader of Scripture , the strongest confirmation of the rule in all cases where marriage is in prospect , and when there has been no engagement previous to con- version . The inspired writer is manifestly recog- nising , by the way , a ...
... reader of Scripture , the strongest confirmation of the rule in all cases where marriage is in prospect , and when there has been no engagement previous to con- version . The inspired writer is manifestly recog- nising , by the way , a ...
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