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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... labour . Even church- building and almsgiving might become as common and generally esteemed as party spirit and education . These changes are not all for the better and the wiser ; and there is no security in the dismissal and despising ...
... labour . Even church- building and almsgiving might become as common and generally esteemed as party spirit and education . These changes are not all for the better and the wiser ; and there is no security in the dismissal and despising ...
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... stability , permanence , virtue , truth , are among the ends which we would set before ourselves , as the results of all our labours , in learning and philosophizing , and political economy and money - getting . It will appear that ( 21 )
... stability , permanence , virtue , truth , are among the ends which we would set before ourselves , as the results of all our labours , in learning and philosophizing , and political economy and money - getting . It will appear that ( 21 )
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... labour is increased and in- creasing , so that agriculture and manufactures are alike calling out for protection and extension , lest they should be ruined ; and the hours of rest and religion , and the season of youth and growth , must ...
... labour is increased and in- creasing , so that agriculture and manufactures are alike calling out for protection and extension , lest they should be ruined ; and the hours of rest and religion , and the season of youth and growth , must ...
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... labour of the six days more effectual and fruitful than would be that of the seven ? Who would believe now that a Sabbatical year would not necessarily be impracticable and ruinous ; or * " On prioit en commençant à bâtir une maison ...
... labour of the six days more effectual and fruitful than would be that of the seven ? Who would believe now that a Sabbatical year would not necessarily be impracticable and ruinous ; or * " On prioit en commençant à bâtir une maison ...
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... labour on Sundays and other holy days , except where necessity and mercy require them ; to discourage luxury and extravagance , and immoral trades and practices , however seemingly prejudicial to trade and commerce ; believing that it ...
... labour on Sundays and other holy days , except where necessity and mercy require them ; to discourage luxury and extravagance , and immoral trades and practices , however seemingly prejudicial to trade and commerce ; believing that it ...
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Page 290 - 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 344 - 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 427 - 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 339 - 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 327 - 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 346 - 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 162 - 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 159 - 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 342 - 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 342 - 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.