The History of South-Carolina: From Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808, Volume 2 |
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... improved on their respective european prototypes . In England and Scotland the proceedings of spiritual courts are frequently vexatious and expensive . Excommuni- cation from the church is nearly equal to an outlaw- ry . A solitary ...
... improved on their respective european prototypes . In England and Scotland the proceedings of spiritual courts are frequently vexatious and expensive . Excommuni- cation from the church is nearly equal to an outlaw- ry . A solitary ...
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... more , and the body less than was common about the beginning of the 19th century in Carolina and the southern states , and about the year way for permanent moral improvement when the fervor of passion 36 ECCLESIASTICAL.
... more , and the body less than was common about the beginning of the 19th century in Carolina and the southern states , and about the year way for permanent moral improvement when the fervor of passion 36 ECCLESIASTICAL.
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... improvement when the fervor of passion subsides into calm reflection and sober reason . They are particularly suited to the state of society in South - Carolina , in which large tracts of poor land afford such a scanty return to its ...
... improvement when the fervor of passion subsides into calm reflection and sober reason . They are particularly suited to the state of society in South - Carolina , in which large tracts of poor land afford such a scanty return to its ...
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... improved the face of the earth , it again becomes healthy . Very little if any of South- Carolina has attained to this state . The upper coun- try is approximating , and the high hills of Santee come nearer to it than any part of the ...
... improved the face of the earth , it again becomes healthy . Very little if any of South- Carolina has attained to this state . The upper coun- try is approximating , and the high hills of Santee come nearer to it than any part of the ...
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... improved by clearing and cultivating the almost be said to have escaped through the fire when they re- covered , which few in truth did who were seized with fevers ; and all those died on whom dropsies had made any considerable progress ...
... improved by clearing and cultivating the almost be said to have escaped through the fire when they re- covered , which few in truth did who were seized with fevers ; and all those died on whom dropsies had made any considerable progress ...
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Page 372 - Devotion alone should have stopped me to join in the duties of the congregation ; but I must confess that curiosity to hear the preacher of such a wilderness was not the least of my motives.
Page 138 - State to all mankind ; and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this State.
Page 373 - It was some time before the tumult had subsided so far as to permit him to proceed. Indeed, judging by the usual, but fallacious, standard of my own weakness, I began to be very uneasy for the situation of the preacher. For I could not. conceive how he would be able to let his audience down from the height to which he had wound them, without impairing the solemnity and dignity of his subject or perhaps shocking them by the abruptness of the fall.
Page 142 - That no man shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land.
Page 374 - Socrates died like a philosopher" — then pausing, raising his other hand, pressing them both, clasped together, with warmth and energy, to his breast, lifting his " sightless balls" to heaven, and pouring his whole soul into his tremulous voice— " but Jesus Christ — like a God...
Page 123 - It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than cousin-german to the party concerned) be permitted to plead another man's cause, till, before the judge in open court, he hath taken an oath, that he doth not plead for money or reward...
Page 373 - The first sentence with which he broke the awful silence was a quotation from Rousseau : " Socrates died like a philosopher, but Jesus Christ like a God." I despair of giving you any idea of the effect produced by this short sentence, unless you could perfectly conceive the whole manner of the man as well as the peculiar crisis in the discourse. Never before did I completely understand what Demosthenes meant by laying such stress on delivery.
Page 374 - ... of portentous, deathlike silence which reigned throughout the house ; the preacher removing his white handkerchief from his aged face, (even yet wet from the recent torrent of his tears) , and slowly stretching forth the palsied hand which holds it, begins the sentence, "Socrates died like a philosopher...
Page 373 - Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," — the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until, his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his eyes and burst into a loud and irrepressible flood of grief. The effect is inconceivable.
Page 372 - I had heard the subject handled a thousand times : I had thought it exhausted long ago. Little did I suppose, that in the wild woods of America, I was to meet with a man whose eloquence would give, to this topic, a new and more sublime pathos than I had ever before witnessed.