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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... innocence , of every individual . I am scarcely acquainted with any profession where the strongest powers of the human intellect , but assisted , you will always remember , by a liberal education , and directed by virtuous principles ...
... innocence , of every individual . I am scarcely acquainted with any profession where the strongest powers of the human intellect , but assisted , you will always remember , by a liberal education , and directed by virtuous principles ...
Page 86
... innocent as well as among the guilty . But why did Atti- cus give way to literary jealousy , against one whom he knew to be completely exempt from it ? Mr. Burke had himself been the hearer and the ally of Mr. Fox in many debates upon ...
... innocent as well as among the guilty . But why did Atti- cus give way to literary jealousy , against one whom he knew to be completely exempt from it ? Mr. Burke had himself been the hearer and the ally of Mr. Fox in many debates upon ...
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... innocent eventually more safe , " by regulations in which the purposes of lenity and expediency are alike consulted , and of which the guilty and the innocent would alike approve , if the grounds and tendencies of such regulations were ...
... innocent eventually more safe , " by regulations in which the purposes of lenity and expediency are alike consulted , and of which the guilty and the innocent would alike approve , if the grounds and tendencies of such regulations were ...
Page 167
... innocent , has a contingent , as every guilty one has an immediate interest , and which forbid us to inflict the heavier punishment , where the lighter would upon the whole be equally efficacious for the commonweal - he must have known ...
... innocent , has a contingent , as every guilty one has an immediate interest , and which forbid us to inflict the heavier punishment , where the lighter would upon the whole be equally efficacious for the commonweal - he must have known ...
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... innocence and insulted dignity . But I may be permitted surely to bestow equal commendation upon the magnanimity of those distinguished statesmen , who in our own days have suffered scandal to spend its strength without using any other ...
... innocence and insulted dignity . But I may be permitted surely to bestow equal commendation upon the magnanimity of those distinguished statesmen , who in our own days have suffered scandal to spend its strength without using any other ...
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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.