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... hope rather than expect will be appreciated , in republishing the valuable work by his elder brother , Sir George , On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion . It is perhaps the best monument of that learned , modest , most ...
... hope rather than expect will be appreciated , in republishing the valuable work by his elder brother , Sir George , On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion . It is perhaps the best monument of that learned , modest , most ...
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who severally act upon the minds of others , it may , and I hope will , attain to an influence relatively wide . It must be owned that the volume contains a considerable amount of matter which would be more appropriately placed in a ...
who severally act upon the minds of others , it may , and I hope will , attain to an influence relatively wide . It must be owned that the volume contains a considerable amount of matter which would be more appropriately placed in a ...
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... hope is to adopt the belief of those who , at the time , are least likely to be in error . ' We are , of course , to assume this proposition to apply to the cases where it is necessary or harmless to have some belief , and where there ...
... hope is to adopt the belief of those who , at the time , are least likely to be in error . ' We are , of course , to assume this proposition to apply to the cases where it is necessary or harmless to have some belief , and where there ...
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... hope to obtain a general assent when I contend that Christianity can have no exclusive or preferential claim upon us , unless that , which distinguishes it as a religion , has some pro- portionate representation in the sphere of ...
... hope to obtain a general assent when I contend that Christianity can have no exclusive or preferential claim upon us , unless that , which distinguishes it as a religion , has some pro- portionate representation in the sphere of ...
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... hope that similar good fortune is in store for the realm of the Sultan . From books of travel and other accounts of the Turk written by men of alien race , tongue , and creed , it is difficult and even dangerous to derive decided ...
... hope that similar good fortune is in store for the realm of the Sultan . From books of travel and other accounts of the Turk written by men of alien race , tongue , and creed , it is difficult and even dangerous to derive decided ...
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Page 143 - A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light.
Page 418 - Majesty the chief government, by which titles we understand the minds of some slanderous folks to be offended, we give not to our princes the ministering either of God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify...
Page 418 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify ; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be ecclesiastical or temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil doers.
Page 523 - Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,— "Tis too much proved — that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.
Page 540 - ... being a politician. And rightly, as I think. For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself. And...
Page 141 - Falkland ; a person of such prodigious parts of learning and knowledge, of that inimitable sweetness and delight in conversation, of so flowing and obliging a humanity and goodness to mankind, and of that primitive simplicity and integrity of life, that if there were no other brand upon this odious and accursed civil war, than that single loss, it must be most infamous and execrable to all posterity.
Page 357 - O smallest among peoples ! rough rockthrone Of Freedom ! warriors beating back the swarm Of Turkish Islam for five hundred years, Great Tsernogora ! never since thine own Black ridges drew the cloud and brake the storm Has breathed a race of mightier mountaineers.
Page 491 - Florence, in virtue of which all the faithful of Christ must believe that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff possesses the primacy over the whole world, and that the Roman Pontiff is the successor of Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and is true Vicar of Christ, and Head of the whole Church, and Father and Teacher of all Christians ; and that full power was given to him in Blessed Peter to rule, feed, and govern the Universal Church...
Page 785 - MANY a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on Day and night, and night and day, Drifting on his dreary way, With the solid darkness black Closing round his vessel's track; Whilst above the sunless sky, Big with clouds, hangs heavily...
Page 419 - Concerning appeals, if they should occur, they ought to proceed from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop. And if the archbishop should...