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... citizen to citizen ; which , with all the energy of concentration , intensified , within a narrow area , at once patriotism , and the vital distinctions of Reli- gion , Race , and Law : -the Providential antidote against the iso- lating ...
... citizen to citizen ; which , with all the energy of concentration , intensified , within a narrow area , at once patriotism , and the vital distinctions of Reli- gion , Race , and Law : -the Providential antidote against the iso- lating ...
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... citizens to the public service.23 6 4 Genitive absolute . 56 7 Having set apart ! ' BUTTм . Gr . Gr . § 144 , 2 . 8 Οὕτω . * Οἱ ἀμφὶ γῆν 12 Δοκιμάζω . 13 Επι * Τεχνίται . Ypéuevos , with genitive . 10 ' To defend ! ' 11 Καθῆσθαι . 14 ...
... citizens to the public service.23 6 4 Genitive absolute . 56 7 Having set apart ! ' BUTTм . Gr . Gr . § 144 , 2 . 8 Οὕτω . * Οἱ ἀμφὶ γῆν 12 Δοκιμάζω . 13 Επι * Τεχνίται . Ypéuevos , with genitive . 10 ' To defend ! ' 11 Καθῆσθαι . 14 ...
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... citizens 17 are at liberty , unless their country is waging a civil 18 war , to travel wherever they may wish , under no alarm lest any one should slay them ; but all despots , in every clime , 19 travel as if [ they were passing ] ...
... citizens 17 are at liberty , unless their country is waging a civil 18 war , to travel wherever they may wish , under no alarm lest any one should slay them ; but all despots , in every clime , 19 travel as if [ they were passing ] ...
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... citizens who cordially 12 devoted 13 themselves to this , many blessings would be achieved.14 For the revenue would be augmented , and temperance would be far more likely to accompany 15 constant occupation.16 Criminal deeds , in truth ...
... citizens who cordially 12 devoted 13 themselves to this , many blessings would be achieved.14 For the revenue would be augmented , and temperance would be far more likely to accompany 15 constant occupation.16 Criminal deeds , in truth ...
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... citizens , the well- ordered , the clever , the just . But these , instead of honour- ing , they dread ; the brave , lest they should venture any [ enterprise ] for the sake of freedom ; the clever , lest they should contrive some ...
... citizens , the well- ordered , the clever , the just . But these , instead of honour- ing , they dread ; the brave , lest they should venture any [ enterprise ] for the sake of freedom ; the clever , lest they should contrive some ...
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Page 173 - The Pilgrim's Progress, In The Similitude Of A Dream AS I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.
Page 175 - My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery ; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.
Page 190 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Page 164 - Touching musical harmony, whether by instrument or by voice, it being but of high and low in sounds a due proportionable disposition ; such notwithstanding is the force thereof, and so pleasing effects it hath in that very part of man which is most divine, that some have been thereby induced to think that the soul itself by nature is or hath in it harmony.
Page 151 - There while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator; they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them fools ; they made sport, and T laughed ; they mispronounced, and I misliked ; and to make up the atticism, they were out, and I hissed.
Page 172 - ... continually sounding as they went, with melodious noise, in notes on high ; so that the very sight was to them that could behold it as if heaven itself was come down to meet them.
Page 164 - ... itself by nature is, or hath in it, harmony; a thing which delighteth all ages, and beseemeth all states; a thing as seasonable in grief as in joy; as decent, being added unto actions of greatest weight and solemnity, as being used when men most sequester themselves from action.
Page 179 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice, the harmony of the world...
Page 205 - Madam, (says he, to the first of them) you have been upon the earth about fifty years : what have you been doing there all this while ?' ' Doing ! (says she) really I do not know what I have been doing : I desire I may have time given me to recollect.
Page 178 - A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil ; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other : and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand by depressing another's fortune.