The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]1847 |
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... liberty all over the world . ' No one can wonder that , after the revolution of July , 1830 , and when all the sovereigns of Europe were meditating another coalition against France , the English people should seize the very first ...
... liberty all over the world . ' No one can wonder that , after the revolution of July , 1830 , and when all the sovereigns of Europe were meditating another coalition against France , the English people should seize the very first ...
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... liberty , and to prop up the absolute power of conti- nental despots . As to his domestic policy , its primum mobile was the preservation of the paramount influence of the patrician oligarchy , of which he was one of the proudest ...
... liberty , and to prop up the absolute power of conti- nental despots . As to his domestic policy , its primum mobile was the preservation of the paramount influence of the patrician oligarchy , of which he was one of the proudest ...
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... liberty to do as they liked . All their former promises were forgotten or denied ; all their engagements broken ; all the demands of the people un- heeded or rejected ; and , year after year , they went on strug- gling against the just ...
... liberty to do as they liked . All their former promises were forgotten or denied ; all their engagements broken ; all the demands of the people un- heeded or rejected ; and , year after year , they went on strug- gling against the just ...
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... liberty of the subject or the liberty of the press , there has been as much of obedience and submission to the law as there ever was at any period of our history . Nay , I will say more - in consequence of the greater command of the ...
... liberty of the subject or the liberty of the press , there has been as much of obedience and submission to the law as there ever was at any period of our history . Nay , I will say more - in consequence of the greater command of the ...
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... liberty . The preference given to Lord Palmerston for this department by Lord John Russell is , in our opinion , strong evidence of his lordship's want of those qualities which his position demands . So strong is our conviction on this ...
... liberty . The preference given to Lord Palmerston for this department by Lord John Russell is , in our opinion , strong evidence of his lordship's want of those qualities which his position demands . So strong is our conviction on this ...
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Page 589 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 659 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Page 167 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 307 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undeflled.
Page 658 - Moreover, when the Lord sent me forth into the world, he forbade me to "put off my hat" to any, high or low; and I was required to Thee and Thou all men and women, without any respect to rich or poor, great or small.
Page 324 - Statutum de tallagio non concedendo, that no tallage or aid shall be laid or levied by the king or his heirs in this realm, without the good will and assent of the archbishops, bishops, earls, barons, knights, burgesses, and other the freemen of the commonalty of this realm ; and by authority of parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of king Edward III.
Page 656 - And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could I tell what to do; then, oh! then I heard a voice which said, "There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition" : and when I heard it, my heart did leap for joy.
Page 403 - Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 264 - I judge it as certain and clear a truth as can any where be delivered, that "the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.
Page 52 - Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2.