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Page 17
... things , it was stated , " That an officer who collected the reports of 172 cases , found sixty - three indivi- duals were killed , and ninety - six were wounded ; and that the petitioner had collected several thousand cases in which ...
... things , it was stated , " That an officer who collected the reports of 172 cases , found sixty - three indivi- duals were killed , and ninety - six were wounded ; and that the petitioner had collected several thousand cases in which ...
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... faction for an injury done ( if the duellist really believes there is such a thing as " chance " ) , places the matter in a light sufficiently ridiculous to expose the system . I remember a long time ago to have heard or 34 ON DUELLING .
... faction for an injury done ( if the duellist really believes there is such a thing as " chance " ) , places the matter in a light sufficiently ridiculous to expose the system . I remember a long time ago to have heard or 34 ON DUELLING .
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... the pistol , do the following parties engage on any thing like equal terms ? A very large man with a very thin one . A very tall , with a very short one . A clear - sighted man , with one of impaired ON DUELLING . 37.
... the pistol , do the following parties engage on any thing like equal terms ? A very large man with a very thin one . A very tall , with a very short one . A clear - sighted man , with one of impaired ON DUELLING . 37.
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... things through a diffe- rent medium ; and if any person so circumstanced became involved in an " affair of honour , " he would voluntarily risk his life in a duel , though his death would ensure the evils I have men- tioned . Friendship ...
... things through a diffe- rent medium ; and if any person so circumstanced became involved in an " affair of honour , " he would voluntarily risk his life in a duel , though his death would ensure the evils I have men- tioned . Friendship ...
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... things and further inquiry . There is , however , one point upon which the duellist must make up his mind , startling as it may be ; and in order to come to a right understanding upon it , before entering further into the inquiry , I ...
... things and further inquiry . There is , however , one point upon which the duellist must make up his mind , startling as it may be ; and in order to come to a right understanding upon it , before entering further into the inquiry , I ...
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Page 86 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Page 86 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 110 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Page 55 - ... drunkenness, revellings, and such like : of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance : against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.
Page 60 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Page 84 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye : and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 118 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Page 64 - Then came Peter to him, and said ; Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him ? till seven times ? Jesus saith unto him ; I say not unto thee, until seven times, but until seventy times seven.
Page 116 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 117 - The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.