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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... prove inadequate to grapple with the contrivances and crimes of the idle and profligate that in a country like this , scores ? of thousands of thieves , and receivers of stolen goods , shall be known as such by the sub- ordinate ...
... prove inadequate to grapple with the contrivances and crimes of the idle and profligate that in a country like this , scores ? of thousands of thieves , and receivers of stolen goods , shall be known as such by the sub- ordinate ...
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... proved ; so that as they advanced in vice or virtue , their very nature frowned or smiled upon them . If any doubt this fact , let him look at history , where they run on in parallel lines ; and since the revival of the Christian ...
... proved ; so that as they advanced in vice or virtue , their very nature frowned or smiled upon them . If any doubt this fact , let him look at history , where they run on in parallel lines ; and since the revival of the Christian ...
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... press , with such slight alterations as seemed indispensable to the circumstances of the change . Thus , though quiet , unobtrusive usefulness may not be so fully attained , yet C he indulges a hope that they may prove a nucleus PREFACE.
... press , with such slight alterations as seemed indispensable to the circumstances of the change . Thus , though quiet , unobtrusive usefulness may not be so fully attained , yet C he indulges a hope that they may prove a nucleus PREFACE.
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... prove a nucleus for many benefits to his country ; though he cannot but regret , that by the im- practicability of the Duke affording an hour or two to the subject , he was precluded from knowing whether , in the Duke's judgment , there ...
... prove a nucleus for many benefits to his country ; though he cannot but regret , that by the im- practicability of the Duke affording an hour or two to the subject , he was precluded from knowing whether , in the Duke's judgment , there ...
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... proved by history from Adam to George the Fourth , and so would our own experience prove it , if we traced back the events of our own lives ; the grand preliminary inquiry is , what most involves man in the disapprobation of his MAKER ...
... proved by history from Adam to George the Fourth , and so would our own experience prove it , if we traced back the events of our own lives ; the grand preliminary inquiry is , what most involves man in the disapprobation of his MAKER ...
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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