The Modern British Essayists: Smith, Sydney. WorksA. Hart, 1852 |
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... religious opinions are abolished , and I see nothing in such measures but unmixed good and real increase of strength to our Establishment . The idea of danger from the extension of the Catholic religion in Eng- land I utterly deride ...
... religious opinions are abolished , and I see nothing in such measures but unmixed good and real increase of strength to our Establishment . The idea of danger from the extension of the Catholic religion in Eng- land I utterly deride ...
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... religion . After the world has returned to its sober senses upon the merits of the ancient philoso- phy , it is amusing enough to see a few bad heads bawling for the restoration of exploded errors and past infatuation . We have some ...
... religion . After the world has returned to its sober senses upon the merits of the ancient philoso- phy , it is amusing enough to see a few bad heads bawling for the restoration of exploded errors and past infatuation . We have some ...
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... religion in Eng- | as that of Catholic emancipation , which has for its object to restore their natural rights to three or four millions of men , and to allay the fury of religious hatred , Dr. Rennel is , as might be expected , a very ...
... religion in Eng- | as that of Catholic emancipation , which has for its object to restore their natural rights to three or four millions of men , and to allay the fury of religious hatred , Dr. Rennel is , as might be expected , a very ...
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... religion exceed even that degree of absurdity which we are led to expect in the creed of a barbarous people . In politics , they appear to have scarcely advanced beyond family - govern- ment . Huts they have none ; and , in all their ...
... religion exceed even that degree of absurdity which we are led to expect in the creed of a barbarous people . In politics , they appear to have scarcely advanced beyond family - govern- ment . Huts they have none ; and , in all their ...
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... religion is reared . A child begins to pray , to act , and to abstain , not to please God , but to please the parent , who tells him that such is the will of God . The religious principle gains ground from the power of association and ...
... religion is reared . A child begins to pray , to act , and to abstain , not to please God , but to please the parent , who tells him that such is the will of God . The religious principle gains ground from the power of association and ...
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Página 93 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there ; save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.
Página 179 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Página 179 - PREDESTINATION to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour.
Página 93 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Página 319 - If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the fry of fish frequent the margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it (which I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement), all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess.
Página 141 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Página 63 - ... as are consistent with the laws of Ireland; or as they did enjoy in the reign of King Charles II.; and their Majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a Parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Página 431 - I believe, that no act in itself unjust, immoral, or wicked, can ever be justified or excused by, or under pretence or colour, that it was done either for the good of the church, or in obedience to any ecclesiastical power whatsoever.
Página 113 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 113 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.