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... nature an extortioner and a tyrant . In such a case , woe betide his province ! His officers are so many bare and hungry oppressors who go about pillaging , leaving behind them universal ruin and desolation . Instead of listening to ...
... nature an extortioner and a tyrant . In such a case , woe betide his province ! His officers are so many bare and hungry oppressors who go about pillaging , leaving behind them universal ruin and desolation . Instead of listening to ...
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... nature . From the satirist we will turn to the humourist , from outbursts of savage indignation to sallies of exuberant mirth . As a specimen of Turkish humour may be taken the pleasantries of the Hodja ( teacher and preacher ) Nasr ...
... nature . From the satirist we will turn to the humourist , from outbursts of savage indignation to sallies of exuberant mirth . As a specimen of Turkish humour may be taken the pleasantries of the Hodja ( teacher and preacher ) Nasr ...
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... nature , Mukhtar by name , for whom his parents found a true and loving wife , called Maimune . After a time he bade her leave her native city of Shiraz , and follow him to his father's house in Yezd . On the way the travellers halted ...
... nature , Mukhtar by name , for whom his parents found a true and loving wife , called Maimune . After a time he bade her leave her native city of Shiraz , and follow him to his father's house in Yezd . On the way the travellers halted ...
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... nature , he finally comes to the conclusion that slavery is founded both on utility and justice . ' Gradually , however , and especially in modern times , more enlightened ideas prevailed . For many years England has taken the lead in ...
... nature , he finally comes to the conclusion that slavery is founded both on utility and justice . ' Gradually , however , and especially in modern times , more enlightened ideas prevailed . For many years England has taken the lead in ...
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... nature . If there really is any gravitation in the rank and file of the High Church party to sacerdotal theories - if there is , as is sometimes asserted , a tendency to caste - separation and to the assertion of order privileges , then ...
... nature . If there really is any gravitation in the rank and file of the High Church party to sacerdotal theories - if there is , as is sometimes asserted , a tendency to caste - separation and to the assertion of order privileges , then ...
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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...