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... fhould to this day remain in a state so imperfect ? One would fufpect fome inherent vice in the nature of government , that counteracts every effort of genius to produce a more perfect mode . I am not dif- pofed to admit any defect of ...
... fhould to this day remain in a state so imperfect ? One would fufpect fome inherent vice in the nature of government , that counteracts every effort of genius to produce a more perfect mode . I am not dif- pofed to admit any defect of ...
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... fhould be " employed in the defence of the ftate . Here would be an inexhaustible fund of " good and able foldiers , who would not be apt to defert , as every man would " reckon it both his honour and his duty to have ferved his time ...
... fhould be " employed in the defence of the ftate . Here would be an inexhaustible fund of " good and able foldiers , who would not be apt to defert , as every man would " reckon it both his honour and his duty to have ferved his time ...
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... fhould furnish men to ferve fe- ven years , and no longer * . But as it would be no lefs unjust than imprudent , to disband at once our prefent army , the soft and natural way is , to begin with moulding gradually the old army into the ...
... fhould furnish men to ferve fe- ven years , and no longer * . But as it would be no lefs unjust than imprudent , to disband at once our prefent army , the soft and natural way is , to begin with moulding gradually the old army into the ...
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... fhould be « taken , to habituate the foldiers to the exercife of arms , to which they owe both " their health in the camp , and their victory in the field . " ] The fame author obferves , that the Romans in his time had become fo ...
... fhould be « taken , to habituate the foldiers to the exercife of arms , to which they owe both " their health in the camp , and their victory in the field . " ] The fame author obferves , that the Romans in his time had become fo ...
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... fhould there behold fuch pictures . " of human mifery , as muft move the compaffion of every heart " that deserves the name of human . What indeed must be his compofition , who could fee whole families in want of every neceffary of life ...
... fhould there behold fuch pictures . " of human mifery , as muft move the compaffion of every heart " that deserves the name of human . What indeed must be his compofition , who could fee whole families in want of every neceffary of life ...
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Página 474 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Página 407 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Página 436 - Verily I say unto you, in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Página 460 - Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Página 328 - And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king ; but my lord the king is as an angel of God : do therefore what is good in thine eyes. 28. For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king : yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
Página 255 - ... and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, whoever came into the world without having an innate idea of them?
Página 449 - And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said unto the people. There are six days in which men ought to work in them therefore come and be healed; and not on the Sabbath day...
Página 459 - Behold ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Página 355 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Página 223 - They have therefore reduced the doctrine of the topics to certain axioms or canons, and difpofed thefe axioms in order under certain heads. This method feems to be more commodious and elegant than that of Ariftotle. Yet it muft be acknowledged, that...