The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence, Volume 4Longman, Rees, 1828 |
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Page 126
... execute , had been coun- teracted by domestic intrigues , or foreign violence- before the baneful systems of authorized corruption and protracted war , which he had so loudly con- demned , and so firmly resisted , were once more brought ...
... execute , had been coun- teracted by domestic intrigues , or foreign violence- before the baneful systems of authorized corruption and protracted war , which he had so loudly con- demned , and so firmly resisted , were once more brought ...
Page 129
... executed drama , in which some distinguished personage has , through a series of sharp trials , preserved his consistency to the close , and meets at last with that justice which had been long withholden from him . In the bosoms of ...
... executed drama , in which some distinguished personage has , through a series of sharp trials , preserved his consistency to the close , and meets at last with that justice which had been long withholden from him . In the bosoms of ...
Page 140
... execution of a sentence which the lips are compelled to pronounce - all these considerations forci- bly convince me that some change is practicable , and therefore desirable . Why then are we left to deplore in some of our older laws ...
... execution of a sentence which the lips are compelled to pronounce - all these considerations forci- bly convince me that some change is practicable , and therefore desirable . Why then are we left to deplore in some of our older laws ...
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... execute statutes , are furnished with copies of them . But subjects , when they are forbidden to commit an offence , and threatened with exile , or imprisonment , or death , for committing it , are left to find out the meaning and very ...
... execute statutes , are furnished with copies of them . But subjects , when they are forbidden to commit an offence , and threatened with exile , or imprisonment , or death , for committing it , are left to find out the meaning and very ...
Page 153
... us that he did not class it under the head of improvements made in that reign , had * Vide Janson's Stranger in America , p . 182 . Book iv . chap . 34 . † Essay 14 . long continued in force . True it is that executions NOTES . 153.
... us that he did not class it under the head of improvements made in that reign , had * Vide Janson's Stranger in America , p . 182 . Book iv . chap . 34 . † Essay 14 . long continued in force . True it is that executions NOTES . 153.
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Page 225 - 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. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 446 - Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special confession of his sins, if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter.
Page 427 - In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 226 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood ; and I have given it . to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
Page 448 - The Second Book of Homilies, the several titles whereof we have joined under this Article, doth contain a godly and wholesome Doctrine, and necessary for these times, as doth the former Book of Homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth; and therefore we judge them to be read in Churches by the Ministers, diligently and distinctly, that they may be understanded of the people.
Page 456 - Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Page 446 - Then shall the Minister examine whether he repent him truly of his sins, and be in charity with all the world ; exhorting him to forgive, from the bottom of his heart, all persons that have offended him...
Page 169 - ... that reason to be avoided. Whatever may be urged by casuists or politicians, the greater part of mankind, as they can never think that to pick the pocket and to pierce the heart is equally criminal, will scarcely believe that two malefactors so different in guilt can be justly doomed to the same punishment...
Page 302 - ... enormity of the first, was from the plunder of the Church. In truth, his Grace is somewhat excusable for his dislike to a grant like mine, not only in its quantity, but in its kind, so different from his own. Mine was from a mild and benevolent sovereign : his from Henry the Eighth.
Page 134 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.