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... society are promoted or injured , and thereby establish a just and infallible criterion of moral excellence , and vicious depravity . In proportion as the individual digresses from the regular and settled course of human agency , or ...
... society are promoted or injured , and thereby establish a just and infallible criterion of moral excellence , and vicious depravity . In proportion as the individual digresses from the regular and settled course of human agency , or ...
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... society . Centuries chase each other down , like the wave rolling over the crest of another , and the grovelling emmet man , continues to build the towering edifices of his presumption and his pride , with the hope of reaping fame and ...
... society . Centuries chase each other down , like the wave rolling over the crest of another , and the grovelling emmet man , continues to build the towering edifices of his presumption and his pride , with the hope of reaping fame and ...
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... society depends in a great degree upon the instruments which an individual of that stamp selects for the attainment of his pur- pose , and there are some instruments of so danger- ous and questionable a character , that unless the most ...
... society depends in a great degree upon the instruments which an individual of that stamp selects for the attainment of his pur- pose , and there are some instruments of so danger- ous and questionable a character , that unless the most ...
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... society was courted , on account of his conversational powers , and the extent of the information which he possessed on the general topics of the day , as well as the critical skill which he evinced , in discussing the merits of some of ...
... society was courted , on account of his conversational powers , and the extent of the information which he possessed on the general topics of the day , as well as the critical skill which he evinced , in discussing the merits of some of ...
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... society , as far as their poli tical , and religious relations were concerned ; perverted as his judgment may have been , as to the means by which the general interests of society might be promoted ; visionary and wild as may have been ...
... society , as far as their poli tical , and religious relations were concerned ; perverted as his judgment may have been , as to the means by which the general interests of society might be promoted ; visionary and wild as may have been ...
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Page 454 - My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Page 410 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 473 - And the act must appear to have been committed strictly in prosecution of the purpose for which the party was assembled ; and therefore, if divers persons be engaged in...
Page 454 - God shall send forth his mercy and truth : my soul is among lions. 5 And I lie even among the children of men, that are set on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 6 Set up thyself, 0 God, above the heavens ; and thy glory above all the earth. 7 They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul ; they have digged a pit I before me, and are fallen into the midst of it ) themselves.
Page 369 - ... over the handbill to him, which charged him with the murder of Mr. Perry. Witness then asked if he had come from Birmingham, to which he replied, that he had never been there in his life. The case being closed on the part of the prosecution, and the prisoner being called upon for his defence, he said he was innocent of the crime imputed to him, and that he " never had any thing to do with him.
Page 459 - ... manner as naturally tends to raise tumults and affrays, and in so doing happen to kill a man, they are all guilty of murder ; for they must, at their peril, abide the event of their actions who unlawfully engage in such bold disturbances of the public peace, in opposition to and in defiance of the justice of the nation.
Page 398 - Feversham, producing throughout the whole neighbourhood the greatest excitement, and adding to their numbers by the harangues occasionally delivered by this ill-fated madman. At this farm, Courtenay stated that " he would strike the bloody blow ;" and they made an ineffective attempt to set fire to a bean-stack.
Page 408 - Thorns undertook to administer the sacrament in bread and water to the deluded men who followed him. He told them on this occasion, as he did on many others, that there was great oppression in the land, and indeed throughout the world ; but that if they would follow him, he would lead them on to glory. He...
Page 240 - Unaw'd by numbers, follow Nature's plan, Assert the rights, or quit the name of man. Consider well, weigh strictly right and wrong; Resolve not quick, but once resolv'd be strong.
Page 409 - Foad then sprang on his feet in an ecstacy of joy, and with a voice of great emulation exclaimed, " Oh, be joyful ! oh, be joyful ! The Saviour has accepted me. Go — on, go on ; till I drop, I'll follow thee !" Brankford also was accepted as a follower, and exhibited the same enthusiastic fervour.