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Page 1768
... thing he can do is to drink on till he dies . Surely , my lords , men of such unbounded benevolence as our present ministers deserve such honors as were never paid before : they deserve to bestride a butt upon every sign - post in the ...
... thing he can do is to drink on till he dies . Surely , my lords , men of such unbounded benevolence as our present ministers deserve such honors as were never paid before : they deserve to bestride a butt upon every sign - post in the ...
Page 1770
... things which are simply hurtful , hurtful in their own nature and in every degree , is to be prohibited . None , my lords , ever heard , in any nation , of a tax upon theft or adultery , because a tax implies a license granted for the ...
... things which are simply hurtful , hurtful in their own nature and in every degree , is to be prohibited . None , my lords , ever heard , in any nation , of a tax upon theft or adultery , because a tax implies a license granted for the ...
Page 1786
... thing that " the Word was made flesh ? " that " Adam all died , so in Christ all might be made alive ? " Unless , then , many had been made sinners by the disobedi ence of one , by the obedience of one many would not have been made ...
... thing that " the Word was made flesh ? " that " Adam all died , so in Christ all might be made alive ? " Unless , then , many had been made sinners by the disobedi ence of one , by the obedience of one many would not have been made ...
Page 1787
... thing as faith in God , thus loving the world , giving his only Son for us men and for our salvation . There could have been no such thing as faith in the Son of God " as loving us and giving himself for us . " There could have been no ...
... thing as faith in God , thus loving the world , giving his only Son for us men and for our salvation . There could have been no such thing as faith in the Son of God " as loving us and giving himself for us . " There could have been no ...
Page 1790
... things . Here is the ground for resignation to God , enabling us to say from the heart , in every trying hour , " It ... thing as pain or danger ? Who might not say then , " The cup which my Father had given me , shall I not drink it ...
... things . Here is the ground for resignation to God , enabling us to say from the heart , in every trying hour , " It ... thing as pain or danger ? Who might not say then , " The cup which my Father had given me , shall I not drink it ...
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Page 1809 - Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Page 1980 - They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace ; when there is no peace.
Page 2150 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 2192 - But, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly. This is the true Act of Navigation which binds to you the commerce of the colonies, and through them secures to you the wealth of the world. Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 2192 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 1919 - Act be repealed, absolutely, totally, and immediately; that the reason for the repeal be assigned, because it was founded on an erroneous principle. At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation, that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 2192 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Page 2182 - We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole of it together.
Page 1968 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world— that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 2143 - For, in order to prove that the Americans have no right to their liberties, we are every day endeavoring to subvert the maxims which preserve the whole spirit of our own. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate, without attacking some of those principles, or deriding some of those feelings, for which our ancestors have shed their blood.