The Works of Samuel Parr, Ll.D. ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence,

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green., 1828
 

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Page 268 - 11. The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls ; for it it the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 267 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it; and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man•s brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth
Page 488 - hath done injury or wrong to any man, that he make amends to the uttermost of his power." " Here shall the sick person be moved to make a special confession of his sins if he feel his conscience troubled with any weighty matter. After which confession the priest shall absolve him, if he humbly and heartily desire it.
Page 469 - Men who their duties know, But know their rights and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim•d blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute a state.
Page 319 - Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mix•d, Assemble, and harangues are heard, but soon In factious opposition, •till at last Of middle age one rising, eminent In wise deport, spake much of right and wrong, Of justice, of religion, truth, and peace, And judgment from above: him old and young
Page 136 - the law, which is in my opinion one of the first and noblest of human sciences—a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very
Page 331 - new and irregular in that house, by loudly and repeatedly clapping with their hands. Mr. Burke declared it to be the most astonishing effort of eloquence, argument, and wit united, of which there is any record or tradition. Mr. Fox said, ' All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read,
Page 332 - and such the estimation in which he held his friendship, that if he were to put all the political information which he had learned from books, all which he had gained from science, and all which any knowledge of the world and its affairs had taught him, into one scale, and the improvement which he
Page 490 - of homilies, which were set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth ; and therefore we judge them to be read in churches by the ministers, diligently and distinctly, that they may be understanded of the people.
Page 485 - or have done any wrong to his neighbours by word or deed, so that the congregation be thereby offended ; the curate, having knowledge thereof, shall advertise him that in any wise he presume not to come to the

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