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Purity of life , indeed , and consistency of character cannot be easily counterfeited
; they give some trouble , and if the mask is to be worn long , so much trouble that
it is cheaper and easier to be than to seem virtuous . If these , therefore , were ...
Purity of life , indeed , and consistency of character cannot be easily counterfeited
; they give some trouble , and if the mask is to be worn long , so much trouble that
it is cheaper and easier to be than to seem virtuous . If these , therefore , were ...
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During nearly a century , the bench has supplied but few great subjects , yet there
have been several whose talents , character , and actions were sufficient to have
rendered a composition vital for generations to come . The inference , therefore ...
During nearly a century , the bench has supplied but few great subjects , yet there
have been several whose talents , character , and actions were sufficient to have
rendered a composition vital for generations to come . The inference , therefore ...
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But it will be borne in mind , that it is not the moral character of the sufferer , still
less his orthodoxy or his heterodoxy , which can determine the moral character of
the proceedings against him . The justice or expediency of resorting to coercion ...
But it will be borne in mind , that it is not the moral character of the sufferer , still
less his orthodoxy or his heterodoxy , which can determine the moral character of
the proceedings against him . The justice or expediency of resorting to coercion ...
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Indeed , at a feast of the poets , we should place the ballad composer , on
account of his merits , very nearly in the same chair , or ( to speak more in
character with the time ) on the same bench , on which , in consequence of his
low station in ...
Indeed , at a feast of the poets , we should place the ballad composer , on
account of his merits , very nearly in the same chair , or ( to speak more in
character with the time ) on the same bench , on which , in consequence of his
low station in ...
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... soi disant philosophical historian , who having first formed his theory , seeks to
bend historical evidence to it . The liberties of England , and her high national
character , have been of no hasty growth ; and o 2 Old English Songs and
Ballads ...
... soi disant philosophical historian , who having first formed his theory , seeks to
bend historical evidence to it . The liberties of England , and her high national
character , have been of no hasty growth ; and o 2 Old English Songs and
Ballads ...
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Page 129 - Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
Page 438 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Page 331 - And one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
Page 124 - Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 126 - Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Page 510 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Page 438 - Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here who shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Page 124 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Page 546 - And, pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to Heaven, is all I dare now call my own.
Page 444 - But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.