Character, or, Jew and Gentile

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Charles Fox, 1833 - 517 Seiten

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Seite 237 - How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Seite 236 - The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
Seite 125 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
Seite 238 - ... falsehood ; which either proves that he has lost all sense of shame, or that he has not read your book with moderate attention. . . The rabble of witnesses that you bring after the tenth century • deserves no attention. If you could make them ten times as many, their joint authority would be a " broken reed, on which if a man lean, it shall go into his hand, and pierce it.
Seite 108 - All hail to the moon, all hail to thee ; I prithee, good moon, reveal to me This night who my husband shall be.
Seite 237 - Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Seite 236 - Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time ? Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Seite 117 - Men must be taught as though you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Seite 38 - It is the duty of all men, Conscript Fathers, in their deliberations on subjects of difficult determination, to divest themselves of hatred and affection, of revenge and pity. The mind when clouded with such passions cannot easily discern the truth ; nor has any man ever gratified his own headstrong inclination and at the same time answered any valuable purpose.
Seite 121 - ... those who have deserved applause; let the iniquitous meet their punishment; let there be no pretences, no deficiencies on your part ; for you cannot bring the actions of others to a severe scrutiny unless you have first been careful of your own duty. What, indeed, can be the reason, think ye, that every man whom ye have sent out at the head of an army hath deserted your service, and sought out some private expedition, if we must speak ingenuously of these our generals also? The reason is this:...

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