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Page 152 - Is Ireland united to the Crown of Great Britain for no other purpose than that we should counteract the bounty of Providence in her favour? and in proportion as that bounty has been liberal that we are to regard it as an evil, which is to be met with in every sort of corrective."*
Page 16 - Lamp, or Spirit, of Sacrifice prompts us to the offering of precious things, merely because they are precious, not because they are useful or necessary. It is a spirit, for instance, which of two marbles, equally beautiful, applicable and durable, would choose the more costly, because it was so, and of two kinds of
Page 250 - of Satan, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they received not the love of truth that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying.
Page 359 - These are they whom we had some time in derision, and for a parable of reproach. We fools esteemed their life madness and their end without honour. Behold how they are numbered amongst the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.
Page 359 - the children of God, and their lot is among the saints. Therefore, we have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us, and the sun of understanding hath not risen upon us."*
Page 67 - driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by any better than the ourang-outang
Page 17 - see how such possessions can be retained in happiness. I do not understand the feeling which would arch our own gates and pave our own thresholds and leave the church with its narrow door and foot-worn sill; the feeling which enriches our own chambers with all manner
Page 301 - As long as the patient will suffer, the cruel will kick. If the Irish go on withholding and forbearing, and hesitating whether this is the time for discussion or that is the time, they will be laughed at for another century as fools, and kicked for another century as slaves.
Page 66 - that the Churches of England and Ireland, as now by law established, be united into one Protestant Episcopal Church, to be called the United Church of England and Ireland; and that the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the said United Church shall be, and shall remain in full force for ever, as the same one now by law established for the Church of England.
Page 78 - to feed or clothe properly, because they were so cheap, and their places could be so easily supplied. It was often arranged by the parish authorities, in order to get rid of imbeciles that one idiot should be taken by the mill-owner with every twenty sane children. The fate of those idiots has never been disclosed.