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... object is so important , and you are performing it with so much ability , that I wish you all My studies have not been much in the line of International Law , and I have accepted the doctrine commonly received , that there is such a ...
... object is so important , and you are performing it with so much ability , that I wish you all My studies have not been much in the line of International Law , and I have accepted the doctrine commonly received , that there is such a ...
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... object ; may your countrymen appreciate your efforts ; may they read your pamphlet and forthcoming volumes and be wise . I am , dear sir , very truly yours , FROM MAJOR - GENERAL JOHN A. DIX , or NEW - YORK . WILLIAM C. FOWLER . J. S. ...
... object ; may your countrymen appreciate your efforts ; may they read your pamphlet and forthcoming volumes and be wise . I am , dear sir , very truly yours , FROM MAJOR - GENERAL JOHN A. DIX , or NEW - YORK . WILLIAM C. FOWLER . J. S. ...
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... object . The South , it is true , make their first purpose the maintenance of State rights , the fundamental prin- ciple in a Federal Republic ; but they only wish to establish State rights in order to make more secure a true Federal ...
... object . The South , it is true , make their first purpose the maintenance of State rights , the fundamental prin- ciple in a Federal Republic ; but they only wish to establish State rights in order to make more secure a true Federal ...
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... object is to inform us of our relations to the Ruler of the universe , and to His eternal Government ; but it also teaches self - government , and how to govern each other . Indeed , the Creator has so interwoven the duties and ...
... object is to inform us of our relations to the Ruler of the universe , and to His eternal Government ; but it also teaches self - government , and how to govern each other . Indeed , the Creator has so interwoven the duties and ...
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... objects . He applies the Bible to the Law of Nations . xviii . His use of the Bible . wards to give it the title it now bears of The Law of War and Peace . What he had chiefly in view was , to set forth those duties which the several ...
... objects . He applies the Bible to the Law of Nations . xviii . His use of the Bible . wards to give it the title it now bears of The Law of War and Peace . What he had chiefly in view was , to set forth those duties which the several ...
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Page 184 - Israel ? And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Page 188 - What shall we then say to these things ? If God be for us, who can be against us ? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Page 114 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 184 - I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Page 189 - Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Page 11 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Page 181 - Give me understanding, And I shall keep Thy law ; Yea, I shall observe it With my whole heart.
Page 185 - For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
Page 154 - And they do claim, demand, and insist upon all and singular the premises, as their undoubted rights and liberties ; and that no declarations, judgments, doings or proceedings, to the prejudice of the people in any of the said premises, ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into consequence or example...
Page 185 - Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus...