The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1834 |
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... government had not merely general expediency for its end , but expedients for its means , and that his leading principle was the exclusion of principles . This was the very opposite to the cast of his mind , for no man dealed more in ...
... government had not merely general expediency for its end , but expedients for its means , and that his leading principle was the exclusion of principles . This was the very opposite to the cast of his mind , for no man dealed more in ...
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... government , all virtue , is ' founded on compromise and barter ' ; - that popular election is necessary to good government , and yet is itself a mighty evil ' ; -- that ' the constitution stands on a nice equipoise ' ; --these , and ...
... government , all virtue , is ' founded on compromise and barter ' ; - that popular election is necessary to good government , and yet is itself a mighty evil ' ; -- that ' the constitution stands on a nice equipoise ' ; --these , and ...
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... government ' which he either possesses or can project , what is this but to de- troy all government ? and this is anarchy . ' ( June 16 , 1784. ) · The speech from which this last extract is taken , was delivered in the debate on Mr ...
... government ' which he either possesses or can project , what is this but to de- troy all government ? and this is anarchy . ' ( June 16 , 1784. ) · The speech from which this last extract is taken , was delivered in the debate on Mr ...
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... government was originally instituted ' for the ease and benefit of the people , no establishment which gives them nothing but uneasiness , can be approved by a wise legislature . Let it then be cut off from the constitution as a rotten ...
... government was originally instituted ' for the ease and benefit of the people , no establishment which gives them nothing but uneasiness , can be approved by a wise legislature . Let it then be cut off from the constitution as a rotten ...
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... government , for the sake of restoring to it that reverence which is its foundation , that I wish to restrain the ' exorbitance of its influence . Is not every one sensible how ' much that influence is raised ? Is not every one sensible ...
... government , for the sake of restoring to it that reverence which is its foundation , that I wish to restrain the ' exorbitance of its influence . Is not every one sensible how ' much that influence is raised ? Is not every one sensible ...
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Page 537 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Page 250 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 159 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more. For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead. Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 460 - And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
Page 537 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.
Page 452 - Miss Reynolds told the doctor of all our rapturous exclamations on the road. He shook his scientific head at Hannah, and said, " She was a silly thing." When our visit was ended, he called for his hat, (as it rained,) to attend us down a very long entry to our coach, and not Rasselas could have acquitted himself more en cavalier. We are engaged with him at Sir Joshua's, Wednesday evening.
Page 296 - But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner ; with such an one no not to eat. 12 For what have I to do to judge them [also] that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Page 518 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice : and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 19 - But when the reason of old establishments is gone it is absurd to preserve nothing but the burthen of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcass not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to preserve it.