Orations of British Orators, Including Biographical and Critical Sketches with a Special Introduction, Volumen 23Colonial Press, 1900 |
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462808 COPYRIGHT , 1900 , BY THE COLONIAL PRESS . I SPECIAL INTRODUCTION T is a truth of impressive significance.
462808 COPYRIGHT , 1900 , BY THE COLONIAL PRESS . I SPECIAL INTRODUCTION T is a truth of impressive significance.
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I SPECIAL INTRODUCTION T is a truth of impressive significance that enthusiasm for civil and religious liberty has been , in all ages of history , the leading motive of oratory . Men to whom the gift of eloquence had been vouchsafed ...
I SPECIAL INTRODUCTION T is a truth of impressive significance that enthusiasm for civil and religious liberty has been , in all ages of history , the leading motive of oratory . Men to whom the gift of eloquence had been vouchsafed ...
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... truths . He had no liking for mere theological discussions , though his opponents were often disconcerted and confused by his ready wit and his keen satire . His sermons were on the practical duties and issues of every - day life . He ...
... truths . He had no liking for mere theological discussions , though his opponents were often disconcerted and confused by his ready wit and his keen satire . His sermons were on the practical duties and issues of every - day life . He ...
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... truth shall be evil spoken of " ( 2 Peter ii . 2 ) ] . There should come fellows by whom the way of truth should be evil spoken of and slandered . But in case I had used this similitude , it had not been to be reproved , but might have ...
... truth shall be evil spoken of " ( 2 Peter ii . 2 ) ] . There should come fellows by whom the way of truth should be evil spoken of and slandered . But in case I had used this similitude , it had not been to be reproved , but might have ...
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... truth . Which here now I renounce and refuse , as things written with my hand , contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart , and writ for fear of death , and to save my life , if it might be ; and that is , all such bills , which ...
... truth . Which here now I renounce and refuse , as things written with my hand , contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart , and writ for fear of death , and to save my life , if it might be ; and that is , all such bills , which ...
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Página 188 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Página 193 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Página 286 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Página 253 - ... individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice so this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 115 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Página 101 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Página 246 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Página 193 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and a new spirit : for why will ye die, 0 house of Israel ? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Página 116 - If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven ; whereof I Paul am made a minister...
Página 193 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.