The Lords and the People, Or, The Principles of Civil Government Illustrated: Under the Connexion of Religion with the State, and Nobility in Britain, Wherein the Causes which Led to the Dissolution of the Grecian Independence, and the Fall of the Roman Empire, are Applied to the Policy of the Present Times, and the Foundation of the English Constitution Displayed Under the Christian Covenant ; with a Vindication of the Church of England |
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... land ! Alas ! the taste of modern days , with few exceptions , is to return , but to despoil - to demoralize - to dissatisfy - to deprave - to destroy ! Thus , England , like ancient Rome , in the day of her decadence , no longer ...
... land ! Alas ! the taste of modern days , with few exceptions , is to return , but to despoil - to demoralize - to dissatisfy - to deprave - to destroy ! Thus , England , like ancient Rome , in the day of her decadence , no longer ...
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... land wherein he was born , and under whose free constitution he was nurtured , in conformity with its best principles . An Englishman's honour should be equally independent with his pride , " without fear and without reproach , " in the ...
... land wherein he was born , and under whose free constitution he was nurtured , in conformity with its best principles . An Englishman's honour should be equally independent with his pride , " without fear and without reproach , " in the ...
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... land , and they were the directing stars of the literati of that splendid epoch , the refulgence of whose rays shed its influence over the moral world , until the dark eclipse of the French revolution partially destroyed its lustre . As ...
... land , and they were the directing stars of the literati of that splendid epoch , the refulgence of whose rays shed its influence over the moral world , until the dark eclipse of the French revolution partially destroyed its lustre . As ...
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... land , and of her safer policy , sufficiently records , that when- ever she put herself at the head of a principle , she triumphed in proportion to its maintenance and such has invariably been the case with all other powers , ancient as ...
... land , and of her safer policy , sufficiently records , that when- ever she put herself at the head of a principle , she triumphed in proportion to its maintenance and such has invariably been the case with all other powers , ancient as ...
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... land of mirth and ease , Pleased with thyself , whom all the world can't please . " And France , under her favourite leader , had exchanged the social for the martial spirit , and cherished that incompressible power , which could alone ...
... land of mirth and ease , Pleased with thyself , whom all the world can't please . " And France , under her favourite leader , had exchanged the social for the martial spirit , and cherished that incompressible power , which could alone ...
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Page 213 - Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers...
Page 360 - I shall see him, but not n'ow; I shall behold him, but not nigh; There shall come a Star out of Jacob, And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite the corners of Moab, And destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 511 - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 361 - And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
Page 77 - And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?
Page 355 - Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered Thou sayest that I am a king. ' To this end was I born, and for this cause came, I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Page 463 - I wish POPULARITY, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
Page 365 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 512 - It is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God, and the custom of the Primitive Church, to have public Prayer in the Church, or to minister the Sacraments, in a tongue not understanded of the people.
Page 359 - Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth...