The Rise, Progress and Downfall of Aristocracy: Taken from Ancient and Modern History, Sacred and Profane; Together with a Comment on the Two Witnesses (Rev. XI) the Three "Unclean Spirits Like Frogs, which Go Forth to the King of the Earth ... "the Great Earthquake which Will Convulse the World ... and the Certain Deliverence of the Family of Man from the Cruel Oppression and Misrule of Kings-craft, Priest Craft and Aristocracy ...The author, 1831 - 200 pages |
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... character , being destroyed , the great moral barrier to vice is broken down . The first principle of nature , self preservation is but too frequently called into action , and an unfortunate wretch with his children , crying for bread ...
... character , being destroyed , the great moral barrier to vice is broken down . The first principle of nature , self preservation is but too frequently called into action , and an unfortunate wretch with his children , crying for bread ...
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... character , who were driven to crime by sheer want , and who would have been valuable subjects , had they been placed in a situation where , by the exercise of their health and strength , they could have earned a subsistence . There ...
... character , who were driven to crime by sheer want , and who would have been valuable subjects , had they been placed in a situation where , by the exercise of their health and strength , they could have earned a subsistence . There ...
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... character . Six of these were on the roads at 6 pence per day . Two could not obtain even this pittance . One had been refus ed relief on the ground that he had shortly previous obtained a profitable piece of job - work , & one existed ...
... character . Six of these were on the roads at 6 pence per day . Two could not obtain even this pittance . One had been refus ed relief on the ground that he had shortly previous obtained a profitable piece of job - work , & one existed ...
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... character is summed up and concentrated all that is degrading in human nature , all that excites horror in the ravening of evening wolves prowling for their prey , and all that characterises an infernal dæmon.- Having united in himself ...
... character is summed up and concentrated all that is degrading in human nature , all that excites horror in the ravening of evening wolves prowling for their prey , and all that characterises an infernal dæmon.- Having united in himself ...
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... charàcter of judges , and the occasion which had imposed upon them that venerable character . " The Peers were preceded by the Lord Chancellor's attend- ants , two and two : the Clerks of the House of Lords , the mas- ters in Chancery ...
... charàcter of judges , and the occasion which had imposed upon them that venerable character . " The Peers were preceded by the Lord Chancellor's attend- ants , two and two : the Clerks of the House of Lords , the mas- ters in Chancery ...
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Page 150 - After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands ; And cried with a loud voice; saying; Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Page 149 - And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Page 154 - And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea ; and the third part of the sea became blood : 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died ; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Page 138 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Page 173 - And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
Page 139 - And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws : and they shall be given into his hand, until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Page 102 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.
Page 110 - 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 172 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood : which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Page 154 - The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth : and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.