Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, Volume 46Pub. for J. Hinton, 1770 |
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... Reason to fhew our Senfe of Gratitude to them , but fcarce ever before greater than at prefent : For , notwithstanding the Number of Competitors the laft Year has produced , we have been diftin- guished by a more favourable Acceptance ...
... Reason to fhew our Senfe of Gratitude to them , but fcarce ever before greater than at prefent : For , notwithstanding the Number of Competitors the laft Year has produced , we have been diftin- guished by a more favourable Acceptance ...
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... Reason , that Ray of his Wisdom , which he has appointed to be our Guide .-- This we have endeavoured to illuftrate in the following Difcourfe . THE Univerfal Magazine O F Knowledge and Pleasure : FOR PREFACE , & c .
... Reason , that Ray of his Wisdom , which he has appointed to be our Guide .-- This we have endeavoured to illuftrate in the following Difcourfe . THE Univerfal Magazine O F Knowledge and Pleasure : FOR PREFACE , & c .
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... reason , which does not at firft exert itself . As we advance in life , we be- come capable of reasoning upon actions , and their confequences , and , accordingly , do in general , reafon justly enough about matters of right and wrong ...
... reason , which does not at firft exert itself . As we advance in life , we be- come capable of reasoning upon actions , and their confequences , and , accordingly , do in general , reafon justly enough about matters of right and wrong ...
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... reason . To propofe , by mere inftinctive attractions , mechanically to draw free agents to the love and practice of virtue , was contradictory to the nature of his defign . Because what is wanted is not fo much , that mankind be ...
... reason . To propofe , by mere inftinctive attractions , mechanically to draw free agents to the love and practice of virtue , was contradictory to the nature of his defign . Because what is wanted is not fo much , that mankind be ...
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... reason of the ftrictness of the college - itatute which he would not violate , nor his oath to it , under any colour . But he was permitted to keep his prebend of Westminster in commendam , through the Lord Keeper's intereft ; who ...
... reason of the ftrictness of the college - itatute which he would not violate , nor his oath to it , under any colour . But he was permitted to keep his prebend of Westminster in commendam , through the Lord Keeper's intereft ; who ...
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Page 204 - That you be carried from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck till you are dead ; and may the Lord have mercy on your soul...
Page 111 - THEY also are to be had accursed, that presume to say, that every man shall be saved by the law or sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law, and the light of nature. For holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 376 - We all know that the very soul and essence of trade are regular payments ; and sad experience teaches us, that there are men, who will not make their regular payments without the compulsive power of the laws. The law, then, ought to be equally open to all ; any exemption to particular men, or particular ranks of men, is, in a free and commercial country, a solecism of the grossest nature.
Page 111 - Albeit that good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment ; yet -are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith ; insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known, as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 164 - His majefty went to the , houfe of peers, and gave ' the royal aflent to the following bills, viz. The bill, to continue an aft for allowing the free importation of wheat and wheat-flour, barley, barley -meal, and pulfe, for a further limited time, from any part of Europe.
Page 16 - Thirdly, the book names none but lawful recreations : therefore, if any unlawful be used, the book gives them no warrant. And that some are lawful, (after the public service of God is ended,) appears by the practice of Geneva, where, after evening prayer, the elder men bowl, and the younger train.
Page 377 - Experience might inform them that many, who have been saluted with the huzzas of a crowd one day, have received their execrations the next ; and many, who by the popularity of their times, have been held up as spotless patriots, have, nevertheless, appeared upon the historian's page, when truth has triumphed over delusion, the assassins of liberty.
Page 146 - I have ever made the law of the land the rule of my conduct, esteeming it my chief glory to reign over a free people...
Page 142 - The people have been invariably uniform in their object, though the different mode of attack has called for a different defence. " Under James the second, they complained that the...
Page 377 - I sincerely pity; I pity them still more, if their vanity leads them to mistake the shouts of a mob for the trumpet of fame.