The Analysis of Human Nature: Or, An Investigation of the Means to Improve the Condition of the Poor, and to Promote the Happiness of Mankind in General; Comprising, Also, the Progress and Present State of Political, Moral, and Religious Society, Volume 2W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1818 - Great Britain |
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Page 283
... debt of eight thou- sand pounds , justly due to him from a person in the city . He pressed hard for the payment without effect , and at last threatened to have recourse to law , upon which his debtor issued a writ against him for double ...
... debt of eight thou- sand pounds , justly due to him from a person in the city . He pressed hard for the payment without effect , and at last threatened to have recourse to law , upon which his debtor issued a writ against him for double ...
Page 284
... debt , and have his liberty taken from him without ever being heard , or without examination , to know whether the cause be just or unjust , right or wrong ; it requires nothing more than the simple affidavit of a man , who may be ...
... debt , and have his liberty taken from him without ever being heard , or without examination , to know whether the cause be just or unjust , right or wrong ; it requires nothing more than the simple affidavit of a man , who may be ...
Page 285
... debt felony at once , than to inflict greater punishment , in order to avoid an odious term ? All countries have some perfections , as well as im- perfections , in their laws ; and the laws of this country certainly do not put the poor ...
... debt felony at once , than to inflict greater punishment , in order to avoid an odious term ? All countries have some perfections , as well as im- perfections , in their laws ; and the laws of this country certainly do not put the poor ...
Page 313
... debt , without the miserable resource of taking to the sinking fund to meet the present exi- gencies ; and that the sum necessary to be raised would not be felt more than when ten millions were raised by eight millions of people . Of ...
... debt , without the miserable resource of taking to the sinking fund to meet the present exi- gencies ; and that the sum necessary to be raised would not be felt more than when ten millions were raised by eight millions of people . Of ...
Page 315
... debts have accumu- lated to £ 20,000,000 in India , besides an increase of stock at home ; that is , money borrowed on ... debt , is the trade of this country always to be suffering by it ? And is the government of this country always to ...
... debts have accumu- lated to £ 20,000,000 in India , besides an increase of stock at home ; that is , money borrowed on ... debt , is the trade of this country always to be suffering by it ? And is the government of this country always to ...
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Page 605 - For that which I do I allow not : for what I would, that do I not ; but what I hate, that do I.
Page 605 - For I know that in me (that is in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing, for to •will is present with me; but how to perform that •which is good I find not.
Page 606 - For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Page 606 - The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Page 606 - For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Page 45 - And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Page 607 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Page 44 - Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do : for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
Page 605 - For I delight in the law of God after the inward man : but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 607 - For we are saved by hope : but hope that is seen is not hope : for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.