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... liberty , or acting incompatibly with his own divine attributes ; and I will add , this he does do , and has done but alas ! the purest light will not enlighten those , who will not see , nor the most powerful reasoning con- vince those ...
... liberty , or acting incompatibly with his own divine attributes ; and I will add , this he does do , and has done but alas ! the purest light will not enlighten those , who will not see , nor the most powerful reasoning con- vince those ...
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... liberty , the innovation would not be so great ; but , alas ! this is not the case . As a punishment to the people for their servility and abject adoration of their cruel kings , and a just re - action of Providence for their usurpation ...
... liberty , the innovation would not be so great ; but , alas ! this is not the case . As a punishment to the people for their servility and abject adoration of their cruel kings , and a just re - action of Providence for their usurpation ...
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... liberty , who vindi- cate such a ludicrous system ! Although one is led to suppose , that any people who would endure such an outrage on society , invert the order of human na- ture , and thus insult common sense deserve to be slaves ...
... liberty , who vindi- cate such a ludicrous system ! Although one is led to suppose , that any people who would endure such an outrage on society , invert the order of human na- ture , and thus insult common sense deserve to be slaves ...
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... despotic countries : pusillanimity su- percedes independence , and man be- comes , not like a lion , but a spaniel dog : he licks the dust his tyrant walks upon ; and only asks liberty to eat , drink , and die ; but alas ! asks in 110.
... despotic countries : pusillanimity su- percedes independence , and man be- comes , not like a lion , but a spaniel dog : he licks the dust his tyrant walks upon ; and only asks liberty to eat , drink , and die ; but alas ! asks in 110.
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... liberty , and yet calumniate the only free government the ravages of despot- ism have left , in the whole world ! and applaud , and even vindicate the cause of the traitors and tyrants of mankind- pardon the tautology ; I cannot refrain ...
... liberty , and yet calumniate the only free government the ravages of despot- ism have left , in the whole world ! and applaud , and even vindicate the cause of the traitors and tyrants of mankind- pardon the tautology ; I cannot refrain ...
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Page 18 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 263 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear...
Page 100 - And he said, this will be the manner of the king that *"• .O•ifSP*''* *~*"*~"fc . 1.63763 90 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 135 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 101 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us. and fight our battles.
Page 251 - Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Page 102 - Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken ? or whose ass have I taken ? or whom have I defrauded ? whom have I oppressed ? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith ? and I will restore it you. And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.
Page 144 - Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Page 142 - Gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Page 135 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.