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... hundred unrecorded . What , then , ought to be done by Englishmen in view of all this injustice to inventors ? The first thing is for the English nation to repent of its cruelty , as the Ninevites did in ancient times at the preaching ...
... hundred unrecorded . What , then , ought to be done by Englishmen in view of all this injustice to inventors ? The first thing is for the English nation to repent of its cruelty , as the Ninevites did in ancient times at the preaching ...
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... hundred and thirty - six millions of pounds sterling ( £ 136,000,000 ) , the other one million and fifty thousand pounds ( £ 1,050,000 ) . If this society had £ 100,000 a year , surely it would not be a penny too much . He did not think ...
... hundred and thirty - six millions of pounds sterling ( £ 136,000,000 ) , the other one million and fifty thousand pounds ( £ 1,050,000 ) . If this society had £ 100,000 a year , surely it would not be a penny too much . He did not think ...
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... hundred half - crowns which he dropped into the collection plate . Voluntary offer- ings were very often anything but voluntary , and there were places where it was necessary to have the collection in the middle of the service in order ...
... hundred half - crowns which he dropped into the collection plate . Voluntary offer- ings were very often anything but voluntary , and there were places where it was necessary to have the collection in the middle of the service in order ...
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... hundred families in Glasgow live in a single room . In the same paper there is a very fine passage in the speech of the Rev. G. S. Reaney , which is as follows : - " When I know of those who are working for a penny an hour , who are ...
... hundred families in Glasgow live in a single room . In the same paper there is a very fine passage in the speech of the Rev. G. S. Reaney , which is as follows : - " When I know of those who are working for a penny an hour , who are ...
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... hundreds of thousands of people in England who are so thoroughly convinced of the miseries which they are compelled to suffer by being participators in the sin of oppression , that though they had to pay twice the skinflint price for a ...
... hundreds of thousands of people in England who are so thoroughly convinced of the miseries which they are compelled to suffer by being participators in the sin of oppression , that though they had to pay twice the skinflint price for a ...
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Page 47 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it.
Page 56 - Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have cast out devils ? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you : depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Page 46 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Page 8 - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged : condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven : give, and it shall be given unto you : good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Page 86 - Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why ? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Page 10 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work...
Page 20 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 82 - Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that 1 may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Page 6 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth ; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 6 - 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.