The Monitor, or The British freeholder, Volume 3

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1758

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Page 275 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 457 - Kefoludons which they had directed him to report to the Houfe, which he read in his Place, and afterwards delivered in at the Table, where the fame were read, and (with an Amendment to one of them) agreed unto by the Houfe, and are as follows.
Page 171 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Page 213 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto we do well that we take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arise in our hearts.
Page 456 - HOBART (according to order) reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe...
Page 393 - Also in such case where the inquest may give their verdict at large, if they will take upon them the knowledge of the law upon the matter, they may give their verdict generally as it is put in their charge...
Page 242 - ... on the French coast, at or near Rochefort, in order to attack, if practicable, and, by a vigorous impression, force that place, and to burn and destroy, to the utmost of your power, all shipping, docks, magazines and arsenals that should be found there, and exert such other efforts as shall be judged most proper for annoying the enemy.
Page 464 - April 1756, nor any greater reinforcement than the regiment which was sent, and the detachment equal to a battalion which was ordered to the relief of Fort of St.
Page 9 - the children of this world are wifer in their generation than the ** children of light...
Page 171 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

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