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الصفحة iv
... endeavour to trace it to its source ; without any reserve or caution of pushing the discovery too far , or opening too great a glare of it to the public . I look upon the discovery of any thing which is true , as a valuable acquisition ...
... endeavour to trace it to its source ; without any reserve or caution of pushing the discovery too far , or opening too great a glare of it to the public . I look upon the discovery of any thing which is true , as a valuable acquisition ...
الصفحة xi
... endeavours to improve the law , 277 2. He resists injudicious attempts to alter the law , 278 3. He does not resist improvement of the law , 278 4. He is aware that lawyers are not the best improvers of law , 280 5. He resists erroneous ...
... endeavours to improve the law , 277 2. He resists injudicious attempts to alter the law , 278 3. He does not resist improvement of the law , 278 4. He is aware that lawyers are not the best improvers of law , 280 5. He resists erroneous ...
الصفحة 57
... endeavour in Constantinople to con- vince the Turks of the error of Mahometanism , or in Rome or Madrid to convince the natives of the errors of Popery , and he will soon acknow- ledge the danger of supposing that this tenacity does not ...
... endeavour in Constantinople to con- vince the Turks of the error of Mahometanism , or in Rome or Madrid to convince the natives of the errors of Popery , and he will soon acknow- ledge the danger of supposing that this tenacity does not ...
الصفحة 64
... endeavours to connect his own narrow views of self - interest with the public welfare and defends any doctrine or party that will give power or continue it . En- gaged as politicians are in active , not contempla- tive life , the ...
... endeavours to connect his own narrow views of self - interest with the public welfare and defends any doctrine or party that will give power or continue it . En- gaged as politicians are in active , not contempla- tive life , the ...
الصفحة 94
... endeavours to discover the original cause of the evil . He remembers the ancient admonition , that " he who in the cure of politic or of natural disorders , shall + Bishop Taylor . rest himself content with second causes , without ...
... endeavours to discover the original cause of the evil . He remembers the ancient admonition , that " he who in the cure of politic or of natural disorders , shall + Bishop Taylor . rest himself content with second causes , without ...
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الصفحة 8 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care ; and the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
الصفحة 78 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
الصفحة 108 - ... from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul ! Yesterday a most excellent sermon was preached by the Rev.
الصفحة 191 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
الصفحة 255 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
الصفحة 217 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
الصفحة 19 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
الصفحة 264 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
الصفحة 48 - Moreover, ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people...
الصفحة 246 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.