A Summons of Wakening; Or, The Evil Tendency and Danger of Speculative Philosophy, Exemplified in Mr. Leslie's Inquiry Into the Nature of Heat, and Mr. Malthus's Essay on Population, and in that Speculative System of Common Law. which is at Present Administered in These Kingdoms: To which is Subjoined, a Prospetus of an Inquiry Into the Origin of Government and Law |
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... person who reads it over with attention , to be- lieve that it must have been composed by two different persons of the same name , but of very different characters ; that the one has undertak- en the drudgery of performing the ...
... person who reads it over with attention , to be- lieve that it must have been composed by two different persons of the same name , but of very different characters ; that the one has undertak- en the drudgery of performing the ...
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... person lying upon the side of the road , in the same situation as the man in the gospel who fell among thieves ; stripped like him of his rai- ment ; wounded , and bleeding , and half dead . That he is in this distressed situation , is ...
... person lying upon the side of the road , in the same situation as the man in the gospel who fell among thieves ; stripped like him of his rai- ment ; wounded , and bleeding , and half dead . That he is in this distressed situation , is ...
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... person who could ven- ture to obtrude such a composition of contra- dictions , and such dangerous opinions , upon the rest of mankind as truths , is fit to be intrusted with the important charge of the instruction of youth . The ...
... person who could ven- ture to obtrude such a composition of contra- dictions , and such dangerous opinions , upon the rest of mankind as truths , is fit to be intrusted with the important charge of the instruction of youth . The ...
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... person who made use of that term , is now , and was by him , under- stood to denominate the cause of that ge- neral or elective attraction of particles of mat- ter towards each other , whether they be fluid or solid , which is found to ...
... person who made use of that term , is now , and was by him , under- stood to denominate the cause of that ge- neral or elective attraction of particles of mat- ter towards each other , whether they be fluid or solid , which is found to ...
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... person who attentively reads this Essay on Population , that the author of it does not believe in the existence of God as the Supreme Governor of the world and that these speculative systems of philosophy which he and others have lately ...
... person who attentively reads this Essay on Population , that the author of it does not believe in the existence of God as the Supreme Governor of the world and that these speculative systems of philosophy which he and others have lately ...
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Page 91 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Page 90 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 92 - And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet «of old fruit until the ninth year until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
Page 91 - If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them ; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Page 92 - Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 159 - ... For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it...
Page 92 - And I have led you forty years in the wilderness : your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Page 159 - It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 106 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 162 - One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.