Observations on Some of the Chief Difficulties and Disadvantages of English Society, with Suggestions for Their RemedyHarvey and Darton, 1829 - 216 Seiten |
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... common sense and common honesty , with a view to the practical benefit of man , and the honour of that POWER who is the source , sum and substance of all goodness , purity , and truth ? Would not such a code be effective in its ...
... common sense and common honesty , with a view to the practical benefit of man , and the honour of that POWER who is the source , sum and substance of all goodness , purity , and truth ? Would not such a code be effective in its ...
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... common ; and for those who do not , or will not , see a remedy in the improvement of society , there surely needs some other remedy ; for it is generally considered that there is , and has for years been , an increasing pecuniary ...
... common ; and for those who do not , or will not , see a remedy in the improvement of society , there surely needs some other remedy ; for it is generally considered that there is , and has for years been , an increasing pecuniary ...
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... common sense , to render the efforts of more imposing genius tangible , he has ventured to offer these sug- gestions , confining himself to a few of the more prominent and generally admitted wants , vacuities , and redundancies of our ...
... common sense , to render the efforts of more imposing genius tangible , he has ventured to offer these sug- gestions , confining himself to a few of the more prominent and generally admitted wants , vacuities , and redundancies of our ...
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... common to the mind of man when it is not employed in some near approach towards its natural strength and capacity for work ; it is not so much to get drunk ; they very generally would much rather not be drunk , abstractedly con- sidered ...
... common to the mind of man when it is not employed in some near approach towards its natural strength and capacity for work ; it is not so much to get drunk ; they very generally would much rather not be drunk , abstractedly con- sidered ...
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... common sense and common honesty , and a young Englishman , at the end of this century , should find some newspapers of the present times , containing the details of criminal cases , how will his feelings , his understanding , his love ...
... common sense and common honesty , and a young Englishman , at the end of this century , should find some newspapers of the present times , containing the details of criminal cases , how will his feelings , his understanding , his love ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 149 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Seite 218 - ... they are indescribably propitious, auspicious, and cheering. They presage the coming of that glorious future, when " all shall know the Lord, from the least to the greatest," and when " there shall be none to harm or destroy