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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... objects are best com- passed by honest means ? Shall it be said , that honest legislation is not befitting the wants and the conduct of a great nation ? But we are about equally remarkable for the number of escapements we provide for ...
... objects are best com- passed by honest means ? Shall it be said , that honest legislation is not befitting the wants and the conduct of a great nation ? But we are about equally remarkable for the number of escapements we provide for ...
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... object of legis- lators should be to provide for all proper means of discountenancing vice , not by pass- ing one hundred times as many laws as are needful , explaining and perplexing and con- tradicting each other xii DEDICATION .
... object of legis- lators should be to provide for all proper means of discountenancing vice , not by pass- ing one hundred times as many laws as are needful , explaining and perplexing and con- tradicting each other xii DEDICATION .
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... object , to be rational and consistent , to oppose vice and encourage virtue at all times , and on all occasions . Now , although the writer hopes that he is only one of many millions who are , more or less , desirous of the welfare of ...
... object , to be rational and consistent , to oppose vice and encourage virtue at all times , and on all occasions . Now , although the writer hopes that he is only one of many millions who are , more or less , desirous of the welfare of ...
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... object of benevo- lence has not worked in classes , but single handed . The more we reflect on the adequacy of legislative enactments , promptly , yet mildly enforced , to increase the happiness , respect- ability , comfort , wealth ...
... object of benevo- lence has not worked in classes , but single handed . The more we reflect on the adequacy of legislative enactments , promptly , yet mildly enforced , to increase the happiness , respect- ability , comfort , wealth ...
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... object as to the sufferings of infancy , but they are chiefly entailed from the former irregularities of the parents and their present neglects . But for the bulk of the sufferings of any rational creature attained to years of ...
... object as to the sufferings of infancy , but they are chiefly entailed from the former irregularities of the parents and their present neglects . But for the bulk of the sufferings of any rational creature attained to years of ...
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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