Principia: A Series of Essays on the Principles of Evil Manifesting Themselves in These Last Times in Religion, Philosophy, and Politics |
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... less swearing , drinking , indecency of habits and conversa- tion . At table , or in the club - room , not an improper word is uttered , and religious topics may be discussed freely . In the streets the common people are well- behaved ...
... less swearing , drinking , indecency of habits and conversa- tion . At table , or in the club - room , not an improper word is uttered , and religious topics may be discussed freely . In the streets the common people are well- behaved ...
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... less frequent executions : by reformation instead of punishment ; -all these are proofs of unexampled pro- gress in legislative wisdom and operation . And even these are exceeded by the ground gained in establishing the grand principle ...
... less frequent executions : by reformation instead of punishment ; -all these are proofs of unexampled pro- gress in legislative wisdom and operation . And even these are exceeded by the ground gained in establishing the grand principle ...
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... less certain at least ; afterwards I shall enter more searchingly into the particular principles by which the question must ultimately be resolved , whether we be indeed advancing , by long and hasty strides , to perfection , or to ruin ...
... less certain at least ; afterwards I shall enter more searchingly into the particular principles by which the question must ultimately be resolved , whether we be indeed advancing , by long and hasty strides , to perfection , or to ruin ...
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... less habits of the disorderly part of the community , that , after two or three years ' complaints , two bills have been introduced into parliament during the present ses- sion , with the view of meeting the evil . " The wealth of the ...
... less habits of the disorderly part of the community , that , after two or three years ' complaints , two bills have been introduced into parliament during the present ses- sion , with the view of meeting the evil . " The wealth of the ...
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... less offensive in our eyes ; next it seems tole- rable ; then excusable ; and very soon after we like and approve ; and lastly we practise it . * Again , likewise , in a new science , or theory , or opinion ; at first the new style of ...
... less offensive in our eyes ; next it seems tole- rable ; then excusable ; and very soon after we like and approve ; and lastly we practise it . * Again , likewise , in a new science , or theory , or opinion ; at first the new style of ...
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Page 286 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 340 - Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Page 423 - The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble.
Page 335 - And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
Page 323 - In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the LORD their God. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Page 342 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 158 - And Enoch also the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying ; Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 155 - For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
Page 338 - 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. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
Page 338 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.