The Works of Hannah More, Volumen2Harper, 1835 |
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... perfect form of government , instead of recurring to poetic invention , need only delineate that under which they themselves live ; who , in sketching the cha- racter , and shadowing out the duties of a patriot king , have no occasion ...
... perfect form of government , instead of recurring to poetic invention , need only delineate that under which they themselves live ; who , in sketching the cha- racter , and shadowing out the duties of a patriot king , have no occasion ...
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... perfect system of morals , like the Chris- tian , would have prevented those evils . Their patriotism was oppression to the rest of the world . Their virtue was not so much sullied by pride , as founded in it ; and their justice was ...
... perfect system of morals , like the Chris- tian , would have prevented those evils . Their patriotism was oppression to the rest of the world . Their virtue was not so much sullied by pride , as founded in it ; and their justice was ...
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... perfect king . It is also worth observing , that all those various plans were both projected and executed by a monarch who , as all his- torians agree , had suffered more hardships than any ordinary adventurer , had fought more bat- It ...
... perfect king . It is also worth observing , that all those various plans were both projected and executed by a monarch who , as all his- torians agree , had suffered more hardships than any ordinary adventurer , had fought more bat- It ...
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... perfect code of laws which could be given , would fall infi- nitely short of our exigencies , if it only gave the rules without inspiring the disposition . The law of Moses had afforded admirable moral precepts , and even the sages of ...
... perfect code of laws which could be given , would fall infi- nitely short of our exigencies , if it only gave the rules without inspiring the disposition . The law of Moses had afforded admirable moral precepts , and even the sages of ...
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... perfect spe- cimen of its own efficacy . This we according ly have in the fully delineated character of the apostle St. Paul . There is , perhaps , no human person in all antiquity , of whose inmost feelings , as well as outward ...
... perfect spe- cimen of its own efficacy . This we according ly have in the fully delineated character of the apostle St. Paul . There is , perhaps , no human person in all antiquity , of whose inmost feelings , as well as outward ...
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Página 265 - For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing ? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? For ye are our glory and joy.
Página 253 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead...
Página 43 - Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath : there is none else.
Página 72 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Página 207 - BUT there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Página 44 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Página 39 - By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Página 290 - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Página 298 - My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire : that it hath alway unto thy judgements. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud : and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments.
Página 112 - For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.