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Goaded to phrenzy in its conflicts with conscience and common sense , denied all quarter , and hunted from every covert , it vaults over the sacred inclosure and courses up and down the Bible , " seeking rest , and finding none .
Goaded to phrenzy in its conflicts with conscience and common sense , denied all quarter , and hunted from every covert , it vaults over the sacred inclosure and courses up and down the Bible , " seeking rest , and finding none .
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Goaded to phrenzy in its conflicts with conscience and common sense , denied all quarter , and hunted from every covert , it vaults over the sacred inclosure and courses up and down the Bible , " seeking rest , and finding none .
Goaded to phrenzy in its conflicts with conscience and common sense , denied all quarter , and hunted from every covert , it vaults over the sacred inclosure and courses up and down the Bible , " seeking rest , and finding none .
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Two hundred years ago , prevent was used in its strict Latin sense to come before , or anticipate . It is always used in this sense in the Old and New Testaments . David's expression , in the English of the nineteenth century , would be ...
Two hundred years ago , prevent was used in its strict Latin sense to come before , or anticipate . It is always used in this sense in the Old and New Testaments . David's expression , in the English of the nineteenth century , would be ...
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There never was a shallower conceit than that of establishing the sense attached to a word centuries ago , by showing what it means now . Pity that fashionable mantuamakers were not a little quicker at taking hints from some Doctors of ...
There never was a shallower conceit than that of establishing the sense attached to a word centuries ago , by showing what it means now . Pity that fashionable mantuamakers were not a little quicker at taking hints from some Doctors of ...
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Ten years since servants were " bought " in New - York , as really as in Virginia , yet the different senses in which the word was used in the two states , put no man in a quandary . Under the system of legal indenture in ...
Ten years since servants were " bought " in New - York , as really as in Virginia , yet the different senses in which the word was used in the two states , put no man in a quandary . Under the system of legal indenture in ...
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Abraham accord assigned authorized became become Bible body bondmen bought called Canaan Canaanites chattel cities claim command condition crime death destroy Deut distinction domestic Egypt equally EXAMINATION existence father forced forever give hand heathen Hebrew held hired hired servants hold honor human individual inference inhabitants inheritance Israel Israelites Jewish jubilee Judg kill kind Kings labor land live Lord master meaning Mosaic system Moses nature object oppression paid permanent persons political possession principle privileges procure protection prove punished reason receive regarded regulation relation rendered respect robbed seems sell sense servants serve slaveholding slavery slaves sold Strangers suppose taken Testament thee thing Thou shalt tion unto vants verse wages wives
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Page 17 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Page 25 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 18 - And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.
Page 8 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.
Page 1 - Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Page 20 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.
Page 17 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.