Lion, Volume 4R. Carlile., 1829 |
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... better certainly do what you know to be wrong , as knowing it to be wrong , ( and morality would recommend you to do so , the rather , how wrong soever you might know the doing to be ) than to do any thing at the hap - hazard of its ...
... better certainly do what you know to be wrong , as knowing it to be wrong , ( and morality would recommend you to do so , the rather , how wrong soever you might know the doing to be ) than to do any thing at the hap - hazard of its ...
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... better that ignorance should be concealed , and that vice , which is the inseparable effect and consequence of ignorance , should be disguised and hidden , as much as may be : for they are in nature hideous and ugly . ' Tis but a decent ...
... better that ignorance should be concealed , and that vice , which is the inseparable effect and consequence of ignorance , should be disguised and hidden , as much as may be : for they are in nature hideous and ugly . ' Tis but a decent ...
Page 59
... our speculations . Having dared once to quit the authority and direction of the law , we should easily be subject to heterodoxy and error , where we found no better warrant left us for the authority of our sacred symbols THE LION . 59.
... our speculations . Having dared once to quit the authority and direction of the law , we should easily be subject to heterodoxy and error , where we found no better warrant left us for the authority of our sacred symbols THE LION . 59.
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... better , or any better ordered , is perfectly good . Whatsoever in the order of the world can be called ILL , must imply a possibility in the nature of the thing to have been better contrived or ordered . For if it could not , it is ...
... better , or any better ordered , is perfectly good . Whatsoever in the order of the world can be called ILL , must imply a possibility in the nature of the thing to have been better contrived or ordered . For if it could not , it is ...
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... better promise . " I can now say I have sought the encounter with my most able and learned opponent , the Rev. Mr. Beard , of Manchester , upon his own ground , even at Manchester , having , according to all the laws of argumentative ...
... better promise . " I can now say I have sought the encounter with my most able and learned opponent , the Rev. Mr. Beard , of Manchester , upon his own ground , even at Manchester , having , according to all the laws of argumentative ...
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Page 305 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 457 - The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say ' This is no flattery : these are counsellors 10 That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 151 - I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 518 - And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Page 393 - European powers, but a moral war which raged in every family, which set the father against the son, and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother.
Page 458 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Page 235 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page 519 - And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.