The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1832 |
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... passed for indisputable maxims of political science , are many such apparent truisms . Dr. Cooper , in shewing the importance of the study , has exhibited a formidable catalogue of false maxims heretofore , and even at this day ...
... passed for indisputable maxims of political science , are many such apparent truisms . Dr. Cooper , in shewing the importance of the study , has exhibited a formidable catalogue of false maxims heretofore , and even at this day ...
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... passed out of the condition of a labourer . ' When we look at the nature of the accumulated wealth of society , it is easy to see , that the poorest member of it who dedicates himself to profitable labour is in a certain sense rich ...
... passed out of the condition of a labourer . ' When we look at the nature of the accumulated wealth of society , it is easy to see , that the poorest member of it who dedicates himself to profitable labour is in a certain sense rich ...
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... passed away in quick succession ; but hitherto , bit- ter disappointment has been the only result of every fresh experi- ment . It appears to be now admitted by the politicians of the North , that , for the present , a monarchy might ...
... passed away in quick succession ; but hitherto , bit- ter disappointment has been the only result of every fresh experi- ment . It appears to be now admitted by the politicians of the North , that , for the present , a monarchy might ...
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... passing reference to the fanatical pretensions of the Row and Regent Square folk . Are we all to possess the power of " working miracles , and speak- ing divers kinds of tongues ? " No : the 42 On the Work of the Spirit .
... passing reference to the fanatical pretensions of the Row and Regent Square folk . Are we all to possess the power of " working miracles , and speak- ing divers kinds of tongues ? " No : the 42 On the Work of the Spirit .
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... passed . That they may be renewed at the time when God's an- cient people shall be restored to his favour , and the whole Gentile world shall be converted to the faith of Christ , is probable enough : but no such power exists at this ...
... passed . That they may be renewed at the time when God's an- cient people shall be restored to his favour , and the whole Gentile world shall be converted to the faith of Christ , is probable enough : but no such power exists at this ...
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Page 6 - Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence: the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
Page 13 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
Page 38 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak ; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Page 540 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 52 - God by the weak pinions of our reason, but he has been pleased to descend to us , and what Socrates said of him, what Plato writ, and the rest of the Heathen philosophers of several nations, is all no more than the twilight of revelation, after the sun of it was set in the race of Noah.
Page 219 - It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 192 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 209 - ... and one even put on a military cockade, in order to incite his parishioners to come forward in the public cause. The genuine principles of our admirable constitution were thought by many to be in imminent peril ; yet all who wrote in their defence were exposed to obloquy. A learned prelate asserted, in the House of Lords, that " the people had nothing to do with " the laws but to obey them," and his sentiment was loudly applauded.
Page 348 - Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican.
Page 245 - We have thought fit, by, and with, the Advice of our Privy Council, to...