Lectures on civil and religious liberty: with reflections on the constitutions of France and England; and on the violent writers, who have distinguished themselves in the controversy about their comparative goodness; and particularly on Mr. Burke and Mr. Paine. To which are added, two sermons, on the “Influence of religion on the death of good men”author; sold, 1792 - 420 sider |
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Side 11
... subject . These principles , which are inconfiftent with the reafon of mankind , as well as with the feelings of nature , were preached to men in- ftead of the doctrines of Chriftianity , because they reflect- ed back on the throne ...
... subject . These principles , which are inconfiftent with the reafon of mankind , as well as with the feelings of nature , were preached to men in- ftead of the doctrines of Chriftianity , because they reflect- ed back on the throne ...
Side 44
... Subjects would be taught , to reftrain within rea- fonable bounds , one of the nobleft paffions that warms the human heart ; they would be inftructed , that refift- ance ought ever to be the laft expedient to which they have recourfe ...
... Subjects would be taught , to reftrain within rea- fonable bounds , one of the nobleft paffions that warms the human heart ; they would be inftructed , that refift- ance ought ever to be the laft expedient to which they have recourfe ...
Side 47
... subjects , that when they were oppreffed and murdered , he declared the actors had done nothing contrary to his fervice . He was a prince of so easy access , that impiety was a powerful , and blafphemy a certain recommendation , if not ...
... subjects , that when they were oppreffed and murdered , he declared the actors had done nothing contrary to his fervice . He was a prince of so easy access , that impiety was a powerful , and blafphemy a certain recommendation , if not ...
Side 53
... subjects of a free government , fhould emancipate themselves , from the oppreffion , and be bound by no laws to which they did not affent ? They faw , that the time was now arrived , when fidelity to themselves , and obedience to the ...
... subjects of a free government , fhould emancipate themselves , from the oppreffion , and be bound by no laws to which they did not affent ? They faw , that the time was now arrived , when fidelity to themselves , and obedience to the ...
Side 55
... subject , had been by military fame , distinguished as a hero , with a powerful army , which wanted nothing but a general , afterward threw away a crown , without even the refolution of a coward , without one effort to defend it ; we ...
... subject , had been by military fame , distinguished as a hero , with a powerful army , which wanted nothing but a general , afterward threw away a crown , without even the refolution of a coward , without one effort to defend it ; we ...
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Side 343 - For it was not an enemy that reproached me ; Then I could have borne it : Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me ; Then I would have hid myself from him : But it was thou, a man mine equal, My guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, And walked unto the house of God in company.
Side 318 - Lo ! these were they, whose souls the Furies steel'd, And curs'd with hearts unknowing how to yield. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day ! So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow For others good, or melt at others woe.
Side 338 - And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Side 357 - I count not myfelf to have apprehended ; but this one thing I do, forgetting thofe things which are behind, and reaching forth unto thofe things which are before, I prefs toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Chrift Jefus.
Side 1 - Lord sware unto thy fathers, to cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you ? then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt ; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand...
Side 54 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
Side 8 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Side 108 - ... in contempt of the choice of the Revolution Society, who have not a single vote for a king amongst them...
Side 109 - his majesty's heirs and successors, each in their time and order, will come to the crown with the same contempt of their choice with which his majesty has succeeded to that he wears...
Side 317 - Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, To the uttermost parts of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, They shall consider thee: ' Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, 'That did shake kingdoms; ' That made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof, ' That let not loose his prisoners to their home?