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... respect for law , for established authority , for existing rights , ' ' which characterise the English ideal of liberty . To all outward seeming the issue was at length narrowed to a war in which England , practically single- handed ...
... respect for law , for established authority , for existing rights , ' ' which characterise the English ideal of liberty . To all outward seeming the issue was at length narrowed to a war in which England , practically single- handed ...
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... respect that foe , and when he finds that he has equal rights of citizenship with the men who have beaten him he will shake hands and be friends . He is not by nature a political agitator or a secret conspirator . He has been played ...
... respect that foe , and when he finds that he has equal rights of citizenship with the men who have beaten him he will shake hands and be friends . He is not by nature a political agitator or a secret conspirator . He has been played ...
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... respect to worship , doctrine , and ecclesiastical government , that a true breach of continuity had thereby been effected . 6 Strange to say , a minor breach in the continuity of the Anglican body has actually been brought about by the ...
... respect to worship , doctrine , and ecclesiastical government , that a true breach of continuity had thereby been effected . 6 Strange to say , a minor breach in the continuity of the Anglican body has actually been brought about by the ...
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... respect to what may be termed the framework ' and ' setting ' of our mental picture of all that concerns religion and human life . When once effected , this transformation must have greatly facilitated all such subsequent changes of ...
... respect to what may be termed the framework ' and ' setting ' of our mental picture of all that concerns religion and human life . When once effected , this transformation must have greatly facilitated all such subsequent changes of ...
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... respect to which a complete change of belief has taken place . 6 The first of these shall be the assertion Nulla ... respecting the lawfulness of taking any interest for money . This was absolutely condemned by ecclesiastical authority ...
... respect to which a complete change of belief has taken place . 6 The first of these shall be the assertion Nulla ... respecting the lawfulness of taking any interest for money . This was absolutely condemned by ecclesiastical authority ...
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Page 150 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Page 57 - Butter and honey shall he eat, That he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, The land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
Page 817 - MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears. My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are...
Page 79 - The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Page 144 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 66 - AND he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that there be some of them that stand here which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Page 500 - Britain that the parties constructing or owning the same shall impose no other charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than the aforesaid governments shall approve of as just and equitable ; and that the same canals or railways, being open to the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain on equal terms...
Page 499 - ... erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same, or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast, or any part of Central America...
Page 77 - The most accomplished way of using books at present is two-fold: either first, to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance. Or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index, by which the whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail.
Page 504 - The Suez Maritime Canal shall always be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to every vessel of commerce or of war, without distinction of flag.