Orations of British Orators: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, Том 1Colonial Press, 1899 - 453 страници |
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... con- testants to involve matters of pre - eminent import to the welfare of the life beyond the grave . But when , a thousand years ago , the beginnings of a nation first assembled in the little island of Britain , and iii.
... con- testants to involve matters of pre - eminent import to the welfare of the life beyond the grave . But when , a thousand years ago , the beginnings of a nation first assembled in the little island of Britain , and iii.
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... matters . Shortly after the accession of Mary , Latimer , together with Ridley , was led to the stake at Oxford in 1555 . 66 It has been truly said that the preaching of Latimer , more than the edicts of Henry , established the ...
... matters . Shortly after the accession of Mary , Latimer , together with Ridley , was led to the stake at Oxford in 1555 . 66 It has been truly said that the preaching of Latimer , more than the edicts of Henry , established the ...
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... matter . But it is directly spoken of diligent preaching of the Word of God . For preach- ing of the Gospel is one of God's plough works , and the preacher is one of God's ploughmen . Ye may not be offended with my similitude , in that ...
... matter . But it is directly spoken of diligent preaching of the Word of God . For preach- ing of the Gospel is one of God's plough works , and the preacher is one of God's ploughmen . Ye may not be offended with my similitude , in that ...
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... matters ; some are ambassadors ; some of the Privy Council ; some to furnish the court ; some are lords of the Parliament ; some are presidents ; and some are comptrollers of mints . Well , well ! Is this their duty ? Is this their ...
... matters ; some are ambassadors ; some of the Privy Council ; some to furnish the court ; some are lords of the Parliament ; some are presidents ; and some are comptrollers of mints . Well , well ! Is this their duty ? Is this their ...
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... matters of variance before heathen judges . It is also a slander to the noblemen , as though they lacked wisdom and learning to be able for such offices , or else were no men of con- science , or else were not meet to be trusted , and ...
... matters of variance before heathen judges . It is also a slander to the noblemen , as though they lacked wisdom and learning to be able for such offices , or else were no men of con- science , or else were not meet to be trusted , and ...
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Страница 300 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Страница 283 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Страница 305 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Страница 365 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Страница 193 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Страница 357 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Страница 352 - I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but, that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Страница 139 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Страница 359 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources, of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth: a spirit that, unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not...
Страница 352 - ... nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see " how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something...