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الصفحة 5
... child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee , Glencairn , And all that thou hast done for me . " There is not anything new in this doctrine . It is as old as the Mosaic system . We read in the beginning of the Old ...
... child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; But I'll remember thee , Glencairn , And all that thou hast done for me . " There is not anything new in this doctrine . It is as old as the Mosaic system . We read in the beginning of the Old ...
الصفحة 12
... children at the withered breasts of their mother , no longer able to yield them relief ; what would become of man himself whom these things do now all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the ...
... children at the withered breasts of their mother , no longer able to yield them relief ; what would become of man himself whom these things do now all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the ...
الصفحة 24
... child that an adder or a rat- tlesnake will bite and that their bite is veno- mous ; or that a lamb is mild , and an hyæna savage . 3rdly . By our own reasoning upon impressions made by either or both of these different modes ; as ...
... child that an adder or a rat- tlesnake will bite and that their bite is veno- mous ; or that a lamb is mild , and an hyæna savage . 3rdly . By our own reasoning upon impressions made by either or both of these different modes ; as ...
الصفحة 30
... child to Eng- land to seek his fortune . She saw him quit his sunny skies , and did own beautiful country and not ... children , and then murdered him to sell his body . -Such is the nature of error with respect to man . Perhaps no ...
... child to Eng- land to seek his fortune . She saw him quit his sunny skies , and did own beautiful country and not ... children , and then murdered him to sell his body . -Such is the nature of error with respect to man . Perhaps no ...
الصفحة 32
... misunderstanding this sequence . A physician , who mistakes the consequence of ad- * Barton says , " The fishponds of nunneries always con- tained the skeletons of children . ministering a particular medicine , when he calls the next 32.
... misunderstanding this sequence . A physician , who mistakes the consequence of ad- * Barton says , " The fishponds of nunneries always con- tained the skeletons of children . ministering a particular medicine , when he calls the next 32.
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advocate answered appears beautiful Ben Jonson body cause Chancellor child Christian church common conscious court death demagogue discover distress divine doth duty earth effect endeavours England erroneous error excited exertions favour fear feeling hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hobbes's honour hope human ignorance improvement instantly intelligence John Milton judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice king knowledge laugh laughter lawyer learned liberty live Lord Bacon love of excellence majesty master maxim ment mind mode Muggletonian nature ness never noble Novum Organum opinion passed passions Patriot philosophy Phocion pleasure prejudice principle profession punishment reason reform religion remembers respect Sarah Price says sequence of events serang Sir Edward Coke Sir Matthew Hale Sir Samuel Romilly soul speaking spirit sudden superiority sympathy Tenterden things Thomas Clarkson thought tion Tobit true truth unto wisdom
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الصفحة 12 - 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 82 - 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 52 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
الصفحة 195 - 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 259 - 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 268 - 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 114 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true. " Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. " Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon, To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love, And sae did I o
الصفحة 185 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
الصفحة 316 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
الصفحة 11 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial...