Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical, Theological, and Miscellaneous Subjects, Volume 2J. Murphy Company, 1894 - American essays |
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Page 455
... Ireland - England and France compared - In which is the bulk of the people more comfortable ? —Laing's argument - French and English honesty and politeness - Hol- land and Belgium compared - Belgian railroads - Charity in Catholic and ...
... Ireland - England and France compared - In which is the bulk of the people more comfortable ? —Laing's argument - French and English honesty and politeness - Hol- land and Belgium compared - Belgian railroads - Charity in Catholic and ...
Page 462
... Ireland is some- times pointed to , as an instance of the improvidence which Catholicity generates in those who profess its principles ; while the superior wealth and thriftiness of the Irish and English Protestant population of the ...
... Ireland is some- times pointed to , as an instance of the improvidence which Catholicity generates in those who profess its principles ; while the superior wealth and thriftiness of the Irish and English Protestant population of the ...
Page 472
... Ireland - Mr . Laing's testimony - The garden - like culture of Italy - Comparative cheerfulness of Protestant and Catholic nations - Taste for the fine arts - Politeness - Temperance - Testimony of Robert Dale Owen - Comparative ...
... Ireland - Mr . Laing's testimony - The garden - like culture of Italy - Comparative cheerfulness of Protestant and Catholic nations - Taste for the fine arts - Politeness - Temperance - Testimony of Robert Dale Owen - Comparative ...
Page 479
... Ireland , or even that of Scot- land or England ? Laying all prejudice aside , and looking into things as they really are , we cannot fail to come to the conclusion , that the laboring class in Italy is as well fed , and as well clothed ...
... Ireland , or even that of Scot- land or England ? Laying all prejudice aside , and looking into things as they really are , we cannot fail to come to the conclusion , that the laboring class in Italy is as well fed , and as well clothed ...
Page 495
... Ireland throws up his commission after a month's admin- istration , and retires to a Chateau on the continent on £ 5,000 a year , this sum is wrung from the starving peasantry of that misgoverned island . It would have been far better ...
... Ireland throws up his commission after a month's admin- istration , and retires to a Chateau on the continent on £ 5,000 a year , this sum is wrung from the starving peasantry of that misgoverned island . It would have been far better ...
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Page 567 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 517 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 370 - ... it is therefore ordered, that the said Mr. Williams shall depart out of this jurisdiction within six weeks now next ensuing ; which if he neglect to perform, it shall be lawful for the governor and two of the magistrates to send him to some place out of this jurisdiction, not to return any more without license from the court.
Page 517 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 423 - If a brother or sister be naked, and in lack of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled ; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
Page 486 - Geneva, the seat and centre of Calvinism, the fountain-head from which the pure and living waters of our Scottish Zion flow, the earthly source, the pattern, the Rome of our Presbyterian doctrine and practice, has fallen lower from her own original doctrine and practice than ever Rome fell.
Page 375 - ... dropt sometimes out of the air, before sufficient spectators, into the hands of the afflicted, while the spectres were urging them to subscribe their covenant with death. Moreover, poisons to the standersby wholly...
Page 374 - And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Page 502 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 418 - This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner ; neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we must be saved.