The Governing Race: A Book for the Time, and for All TimesT. McGill, printer, 1860 - 102 pages |
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... happiness of their brethren of inferior condition , in equal proportion with their own advancement in civilization and Christianity . Then the Word of God will have power over the hearts of all men , and " the earth shall be full of the ...
... happiness of their brethren of inferior condition , in equal proportion with their own advancement in civilization and Christianity . Then the Word of God will have power over the hearts of all men , and " the earth shall be full of the ...
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... happiness of woman were thrown out of the account . But as woman is the root of humanity , the right of the child to freedom must rest on the con- dition of the mother . This , the legislators of Greece and Rome saw by the light of ...
... happiness of woman were thrown out of the account . But as woman is the root of humanity , the right of the child to freedom must rest on the con- dition of the mother . This , the legislators of Greece and Rome saw by the light of ...
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... happiness is the way of righteousness . The author of the " Declaration of Independence " had had this Bible source of knowledge around him ; its light had not warmed his heart to love religious truth , but it had modified his ...
... happiness is the way of righteousness . The author of the " Declaration of Independence " had had this Bible source of knowledge around him ; its light had not warmed his heart to love religious truth , but it had modified his ...
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... happiness . " Can men catch it ? is the real question . What is the worth of our right to run after a rainbow ? Is happiness to be caught like the butterfly ? or rather , must it not be developed in the disposition , nurtured by wise ...
... happiness . " Can men catch it ? is the real question . What is the worth of our right to run after a rainbow ? Is happiness to be caught like the butterfly ? or rather , must it not be developed in the disposition , nurtured by wise ...
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... happiness ? " should his notion of it lead him into con- duct that would destroy the happiness of his parents ? of his wife and children ? put in peril the happiness , that is the safety , of his country and his fellow - citizens ? Has ...
... happiness ? " should his notion of it lead him into con- duct that would destroy the happiness of his parents ? of his wife and children ? put in peril the happiness , that is the safety , of his country and his fellow - citizens ? Has ...
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Page 36 - Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
Page 32 - If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Page 102 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 14 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 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...
Page 102 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 30 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 32 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things ; not answering again ; not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
Page 36 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary...
Page 30 - His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Page 33 - Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear ; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.