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... objects in view - one is , to show the causes which lie at the root of bad government ; the other , how they may be removed . Back 20 MANCHESTER : PUBLISHED AT THE HALL OF SCIENCE , CAMP FIELD , AND SOLD BY HEYWOOD , OLDHAM ST . , J . R ...
... objects in view - one is , to show the causes which lie at the root of bad government ; the other , how they may be removed . Back 20 MANCHESTER : PUBLISHED AT THE HALL OF SCIENCE , CAMP FIELD , AND SOLD BY HEYWOOD , OLDHAM ST . , J . R ...
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... objects in view - one is , to show the onuses which lie at the root of bad government ; the other , how they may be removed . To the achievement of these objects all their efforts will be directed . Every where the people perish for ...
... objects in view - one is , to show the onuses which lie at the root of bad government ; the other , how they may be removed . To the achievement of these objects all their efforts will be directed . Every where the people perish for ...
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... object to cheering , great cheering , or even tremen- dous cheering , upon suitable occasions ; -by no means . They are often the outward and , as it were , visible sign of patriotic determination ; but if the people would be victorious ...
... object to cheering , great cheering , or even tremen- dous cheering , upon suitable occasions ; -by no means . They are often the outward and , as it were , visible sign of patriotic determination ; but if the people would be victorious ...
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... objects , would achieve them by different means , and cowardly slanderers whose political liberality may be summed up in the one short emphatic word - HUMbug . NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FIRE - THREATENER . The Fire - Threatener , Bete de ...
... objects , would achieve them by different means , and cowardly slanderers whose political liberality may be summed up in the one short emphatic word - HUMbug . NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FIRE - THREATENER . The Fire - Threatener , Bete de ...
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... object of court favour . Well ! what has been my life ? I am voluntarily shut up in subterranean cells . I am condemned to misery and every danger . The blades of twenty thousand assassins were suspended over me , and I preached the ...
... object of court favour . Well ! what has been my life ? I am voluntarily shut up in subterranean cells . I am condemned to misery and every danger . The blades of twenty thousand assassins were suspended over me , and I preached the ...
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Page 36 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 81 - There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: It is the devil.
Page 85 - tis the fall degrades her to a whore ; Let greatness own her, and she's mean no more : Her birth, her beauty, crowds and courts confess, Chaste matrons praise her, and grave bishops bless; In golden chains the willing world she draws, And hers the gospel is, and hers the laws ; Mounts the tribunal, lifts her scarlet head, And sees pale virtue carted in her stead.
Page 46 - How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 31 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 31 - But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Page 83 - Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil. Friends enough you shall find who will hold up to your emulation Wesleys and Oberlins, Saints and Prophets. Thank God for these good men, but say, 'I also am a man.
Page 7 - A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; 3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous ; 4 One that ruleth well his own house...
Page 91 - twere vain to tell, But gaze on that of the gazelle, It will assist thy fancy well...
Page 91 - Nay, had she been true, If heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, I'd not have sold her for it.