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... Europe , who , firmly impressed with the sanctity of their office , have not tampered with Democracy , or suffered their holy functions to be employed for the promotion of the temporal interests of any but those Monarchs to whom they ...
... Europe , who , firmly impressed with the sanctity of their office , have not tampered with Democracy , or suffered their holy functions to be employed for the promotion of the temporal interests of any but those Monarchs to whom they ...
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... Europe , could not fail to sap the foundations of religion and virtue , established by the founders of their too mixed and unstable form of government . Men , quit- ting their native country , many of them for reasons not very ...
... Europe , could not fail to sap the foundations of religion and virtue , established by the founders of their too mixed and unstable form of government . Men , quit- ting their native country , many of them for reasons not very ...
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... Europe during that time , and two foreign wars , I will venture to assert the federal union would have been long since dissolved . A war with France , and another with Great Britain , were causes which restored their unanimity in some ...
... Europe during that time , and two foreign wars , I will venture to assert the federal union would have been long since dissolved . A war with France , and another with Great Britain , were causes which restored their unanimity in some ...
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... Europe was expending her blood and exhausting her finances to the lowest ebb , in an almost exterminating warfare , that involved the dearest interests of religion and humanity . All this time crowds of emigrants of every description ...
... Europe was expending her blood and exhausting her finances to the lowest ebb , in an almost exterminating warfare , that involved the dearest interests of religion and humanity . All this time crowds of emigrants of every description ...
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... Europe almost exceeds belief . After reading this account , can any one feel surprised at the rapid increase of wealth , of inhabitants , and the consequent pros- perity which has been so much vaunted ? Who , after reflecting on the ...
... Europe almost exceeds belief . After reading this account , can any one feel surprised at the rapid increase of wealth , of inhabitants , and the consequent pros- perity which has been so much vaunted ? Who , after reflecting on the ...
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Religion and Politics: Or, Church and State, by the Author of 'Russia As It Is' Peter Dobell No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 28 - This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England...
Page 29 - For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men : as free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Page 45 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 53 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 61 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 8 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power ? Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
Page 28 - England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots, and rotten parchment bonds...
Page 8 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 61 - For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Page 55 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds; Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil citizens kneading up the honey, The poor mechanic porters crowding in Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,...