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Page 150
... secure the best means for giving strength and stability to her own institutions , for the prevention as well as the punishment of crime , and for advancing the general welfare of the public . It is simply because education is essential ...
... secure the best means for giving strength and stability to her own institutions , for the prevention as well as the punishment of crime , and for advancing the general welfare of the public . It is simply because education is essential ...
Page 166
... secure them against the evils of degrading want on the one hand , and of corrupting luxury on the other , he prescribed their pursuits and condition in life with extraordina- ry care . Nomadic life is always more or less allied to ...
... secure them against the evils of degrading want on the one hand , and of corrupting luxury on the other , he prescribed their pursuits and condition in life with extraordina- ry care . Nomadic life is always more or less allied to ...
Page 167
... secure the cultivation of it ; and while the wealth of a nation is thus promoted by his industry , both his possessions and his occupation tend to create that sense of independence and habit of sobriety and endurance which form the ...
... secure the cultivation of it ; and while the wealth of a nation is thus promoted by his industry , both his possessions and his occupation tend to create that sense of independence and habit of sobriety and endurance which form the ...
Page 168
... secure the Hebrews against this degradation , and to preserve the equality which had been originally established , no landed estate could be alienated for more than fifty years . This was a leading ordinance in the polity of the Hebrews ...
... secure the Hebrews against this degradation , and to preserve the equality which had been originally established , no landed estate could be alienated for more than fifty years . This was a leading ordinance in the polity of the Hebrews ...
Page 209
... secure against all harm , or to overlook the danger which is most imminent and serious . This fair tree may be spreading its branches over the length and the breadth of the land , and yet there may be a worm at the root . Our great ...
... secure against all harm , or to overlook the danger which is most imminent and serious . This fair tree may be spreading its branches over the length and the breadth of the land , and yet there may be a worm at the root . Our great ...
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Page 56 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 93 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, Make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill shall be made low: And the crooked shall be made straight, And the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together: For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 13 - Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Page 98 - Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 265 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men. And, if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid ? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that ' ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 73 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 265 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men; and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Page 100 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 125 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 131 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart : and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.