 The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed; down to modern times, no State has had a constitution in which the interests of the people are so largely taken into account, in which the duties, so much more than the privileges,...  The Ideals of Theodore Roosevelt - Page 56by Edward Howe Cotton - 1923 - 329 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1904 - 738 pages
...clerical and political despotism. No State, he says, has had a constitution in which the interests of her people are so largely taken into account, in which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and Leviticus; nowhere is the... | |
 | 1911 - 1122 pages
...of the Bible upon those who study the ills of our time with the hope of eventually remedying them : The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and...which the duties so much more than the privileges of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and in Leviticus ; nowhere is... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1892 - 648 pages
...have been the great instigators of revolt against the worst forms of clerical and political despotism. The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and...which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and in Leviticus ; nowhere is... | |
 | 1892 - 954 pages
...of Israel. Here, for instance, is some generous testimony : " The Bible has been the Maijua ('karta of the poor and of the oppressed ; down to modern...largely taken into account, in which the duties so mucli more than the privileges of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy... | |
 | William Sanday - 1893 - 520 pages
...the slave2. It is 1 Jer. xxiii. 18, 22. 2 Comp. Huxley, Essays on Controverted Questions, p. 52 : ' The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and...which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and Leviticus ; nowhere is the... | |
 | 1893 - 804 pages
...earns the blessings or the curses of all time, according to its effort to do good and hate evil." " Down to modern times no state has had a constitution...interests of the people are so largely taken into the account, in which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as... | |
 | William Sanday - 1894 - 518 pages
...the slave2. It is 1 Jer. xxiii. 18, 22. a Comp. Huxley, Essays on Controverted Questions, p. 52 : ' The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and...which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and Leviticus ; nowhere is the... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 472 pages
...have been the great instigators of revolt against the worst forms of clerical and political despotism. The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and...which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and in Leviticus ; nowhere is... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 478 pages
...of revolt against the worst forma of clerical and political despotism. The Bible has been the Magnd Charta of the poor and of the oppressed ; down to...which the duties, so much more than the privileges, of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn up for Israel in Deuteronomy and in Leviticus; nowhere is the... | |
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - 1894 - 536 pages
...limits of the oldest nations in the world." ..." The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and the oppressed ; down to modern times, no State has...constitution in which the interests of the people are BO largely taken into account, in which the duties, ... of rulers are insisted upon, as that drawn... | |
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