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... spect for a professed attachment to those views and feelings , which pervaded the earlier periods of our history , and of gratitude for that beneficent and ef- fective patronage , to which our charitable institutions bear witness ...
... spect for a professed attachment to those views and feelings , which pervaded the earlier periods of our history , and of gratitude for that beneficent and ef- fective patronage , to which our charitable institutions bear witness ...
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... spect those rights . Use with caution but intrepidity this liberty . Guard against licentiousness . After a full investigation of the talents , the moral qualities , the political knowledge , the evidences of public spirit , and ...
... spect those rights . Use with caution but intrepidity this liberty . Guard against licentiousness . After a full investigation of the talents , the moral qualities , the political knowledge , the evidences of public spirit , and ...
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... , for doing precisely the same things with equally good intentions . ages . But if our interference was a crime , let us at least claim some merit for our subsequent forbearance . spect him ; and if a minister , with equal 37.
... , for doing precisely the same things with equally good intentions . ages . But if our interference was a crime , let us at least claim some merit for our subsequent forbearance . spect him ; and if a minister , with equal 37.
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spect him ; and if a minister , with equal ignorance , will preach with the most confidence on themes on which he knows the least - let him not be surprised if we refuse his lessons . Let him remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy ...
spect him ; and if a minister , with equal ignorance , will preach with the most confidence on themes on which he knows the least - let him not be surprised if we refuse his lessons . Let him remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy ...
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... love of country , and of self - re- spect ; there , every power of the mind , in every man , is put upon its utmost stretch to promote the public weal , by which alone the happiness of indi- viduals is to be secured ; there , in the 23.
... love of country , and of self - re- spect ; there , every power of the mind , in every man , is put upon its utmost stretch to promote the public weal , by which alone the happiness of indi- viduals is to be secured ; there , in the 23.
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Page 21 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Page 23 - EXCEPT the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Page 10 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 6 - ... and It is further ordered, That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 6 - If it were a matter of wrong, or ' wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should ' bear with you : but if it be a question of words and ' names, and of your law, look ye to it ; for I will be no
Page 1 - Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.
Page 6 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world...
Page 6 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors — It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 6 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 1 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.