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Page 43
... hope , and his imme- diate successor had neither virtue nor abilities to remedy the evils of the government , or the sufferings of the people . The clergy , the nobility , and the king , were each of them at the head of a separate ...
... hope , and his imme- diate successor had neither virtue nor abilities to remedy the evils of the government , or the sufferings of the people . The clergy , the nobility , and the king , were each of them at the head of a separate ...
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... hope of erecting a free and virtuous republic upon the ruins of monarchy . Their utmost wish extended on- ly to a salutary reform in government . They wished to limit the royal prerogative , and open some pros- pect for the ...
... hope of erecting a free and virtuous republic upon the ruins of monarchy . Their utmost wish extended on- ly to a salutary reform in government . They wished to limit the royal prerogative , and open some pros- pect for the ...
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... hope - no rock on which truth and rea- son may build a fabric that shall never fall ? Yes .... there is a KINGDOM : its foundations were laid of old : its King is the God of heaven : its law is perfect love : its dominions are wide ...
... hope - no rock on which truth and rea- son may build a fabric that shall never fall ? Yes .... there is a KINGDOM : its foundations were laid of old : its King is the God of heaven : its law is perfect love : its dominions are wide ...
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... hope of acquiring wealth , or even a comfortable living . Whatever they get must go to pamper the pride of a haughty , tyrannical master , who can hardly be willing they should breathe the vital air without paying a tax for it . So ...
... hope of acquiring wealth , or even a comfortable living . Whatever they get must go to pamper the pride of a haughty , tyrannical master , who can hardly be willing they should breathe the vital air without paying a tax for it . So ...
Page 84
... hope for from her own energy and wisdom . They stepped in and perform- ed an act , which Solomon himself , if alive , must con- fess to be a new thing under the sun . They dismem- bered , if we look merely at natural advantages , one of ...
... hope for from her own energy and wisdom . They stepped in and perform- ed an act , which Solomon himself , if alive , must con- fess to be a new thing under the sun . They dismem- bered , if we look merely at natural advantages , one of ...
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Page 71 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 95 - to whom a thousand years are but as one day, and one day as a thousand years...
Page 95 - Redeemer shall, in his own time and way, show who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.