Y Traethodydd: am y fleyddyn ..., Volume 20

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Argraffwyd a Chyhoeddwyd Gan T. Gee a'i Fab, 1868 - Theology
 

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Page 106 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, a universal wolf, .So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce a universal prey, And, last, eat up himself.— This chaos, when degree is suffocate, Follows the...
Page 217 - As far as we can trace back the footsteps of man, even on the lowest strata of history, we see that the divine gift of a sound and sober intellect belonged to him from the very first ; and the idea of a humanity emerging slowly from the depths of an animal brutality can never be maintained again.
Page 222 - Melchisedec, and being kings to exercise the office of priests, which fathers did at the first, grew perhaps by the same occasion. Howbeit not this the only kind of regiment that hath been received in the world.
Page 217 - The people, if we trace government to its first origin in the woods and deserts, are the source of all power and jurisdiction, and voluntarily, for the sake of peace and order, abandoned their native liberty, and received laws from their equal and companion.
Page 22 - Ac mi a glywais lef o'r nef, yn dywedyd wrthyf, Ysgrifena, Gwyn eu byd y meirw y rhai sydd yn marw yn yr Arglwydd, o hyn alian, medd yr Yspryd,fel ygorphwysont oddi wrth eu llafur ; a'u gweithredoedd sydd yn eu canlyn hwynt.
Page 169 - Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes : Each morning sees some task begun, Each evening sees its close : Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Page 127 - For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie : though it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

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