A Series of Popular Essays: Illustrative of Principles Essentially Connected with the Improvement of the Understanding, the Imagination, and the Heart, Volumen2Manners and Miller; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 |
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... circum- stances favourable to the advancement of their claims , enabled them to extort ac- knowledgments of them in the form of laws and charters ; and thus was gradually formed a constitution more favourable to virtue and to happiness ...
... circum- stances favourable to the advancement of their claims , enabled them to extort ac- knowledgments of them in the form of laws and charters ; and thus was gradually formed a constitution more favourable to virtue and to happiness ...
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... circum- stance which retards this lamentable con- clusion of the history of a free people , is the intellectual energy that inevitably re- sults from a free exercise of the intellectual powers . The greatest , perhaps the only great ...
... circum- stance which retards this lamentable con- clusion of the history of a free people , is the intellectual energy that inevitably re- sults from a free exercise of the intellectual powers . The greatest , perhaps the only great ...
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... class of objects the attention was di- rected , their talents were equally conspi- Such were the consequences of not only being permitted , but , by the circum- cuous . stances peculiar to the inhabitants of an- cient Greece , 20 ESSAY IV .
... class of objects the attention was di- rected , their talents were equally conspi- Such were the consequences of not only being permitted , but , by the circum- cuous . stances peculiar to the inhabitants of an- cient Greece , 20 ESSAY IV .
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... circum- stances may indeed be considered as the father of his people . His interest is iden- tified with theirs . In their prosperity he is prosperous ; and consequently , in the ex- ercise of his royal functions , is in a manner ...
... circum- stances may indeed be considered as the father of his people . His interest is iden- tified with theirs . In their prosperity he is prosperous ; and consequently , in the ex- ercise of his royal functions , is in a manner ...
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... circum- stances , appears truly astonishing . The doctrines which they inculcated from di- vine authority , were indeed few and sim- ple ; but , being of infinite moment , they were , by that very circumstance , calculat- ed to make a ...
... circum- stances , appears truly astonishing . The doctrines which they inculcated from di- vine authority , were indeed few and sim- ple ; but , being of infinite moment , they were , by that very circumstance , calculat- ed to make a ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 241 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Página 88 - Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, And righteousness remain in the fruitful field. And the work of righteousness shall be peace ; And the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Página 121 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
Página 414 - If anyone love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.
Página 300 - Perception of distress in others is a natural excitement, passively to pity, and actively to relieve it : but let a man set himself to attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which he must become acquainted ; when yet, at the same time, benevolence, considered not as a passion, but as a practical principle of action, will strengthen : and whilst he passively compassionates the distressed...
Página 410 - Lord to prepare his ways ; to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God ; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Página 233 - In some tragedies and romances we meet with many beautiful and interesting scenes, founded upon what is called the force of blood, or upon the wonderful affection which near relations are supposed to conceive for one another, even before they know that they have any such connection. This force of blood, however, I am afraid, exists nowhere but in tragedies and romances.
Página 5 - A stranger to human nature, who saw the indifference of men about the misery of their inferiors and the regret and indignation which they feel for the misfortunes and sufferings of those above them, would be apt to imagine that pain must be more agonizing and the convulsions of death more terrible to persons of higher rank than to those of meaner stations.
Página 296 - Into the horrors of the gloomy jail? Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans; Where Sickness pines; where Thirst and Hunger burn, And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice.
Página 83 - America their condition is so peculiarly grievous, and their depression so complete, that servitude is a name too mild to describe their wretched state. A wife, among most. tribes, is no better than a beast of burden, destined to every office of labor and fatigue.