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... motives for refusing a duel would have been laughed at and ridiculed , Matt . x . 32 , 33. - No repentance beyond the grave pp . 79-88 CHAPTER V. Gospel enjoins love and charity . - Law of honour , Selfish- ness . - Love the ...
... motives for refusing a duel would have been laughed at and ridiculed , Matt . x . 32 , 33. - No repentance beyond the grave pp . 79-88 CHAPTER V. Gospel enjoins love and charity . - Law of honour , Selfish- ness . - Love the ...
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... motives of revenge . The guilt of them , however , is not much decreased by the humiliating , but well known fact , that the greater part of these en- counters proceed from fear ; not fear of sustain- ing any injury from the transaction ...
... motives of revenge . The guilt of them , however , is not much decreased by the humiliating , but well known fact , that the greater part of these en- counters proceed from fear ; not fear of sustain- ing any injury from the transaction ...
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... I do most earnestly invite any duellist , who has not well considered his own motives and reasons for being one , to join me in a short examination of the succession of consequences which necessarily arise out ON DUELLING . 23.
... I do most earnestly invite any duellist , who has not well considered his own motives and reasons for being one , to join me in a short examination of the succession of consequences which necessarily arise out ON DUELLING . 23.
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... motives which influenced us to act as we did , and we considered them sufficient . Querist . - Then if these motives were sufficient to justify you for what you did , it follows that every man would be justified in committing the same ...
... motives which influenced us to act as we did , and we considered them sufficient . Querist . - Then if these motives were sufficient to justify you for what you did , it follows that every man would be justified in committing the same ...
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... motives that influenced your conduct ? Both Prisoners . - They were . Querist . Then I am to understand , that to avoid the mortification of being excluded from the society you preferred , and to which you had been accustomed , and to ...
... motives that influenced your conduct ? Both Prisoners . - They were . Querist . Then I am to understand , that to avoid the mortification of being excluded from the society you preferred , and to which you had been accustomed , and to ...
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Página 86 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Página 86 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; they toil not, neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 110 - Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Página 55 - ... drunkenness, revellings, and such like : of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance : against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts.
Página 60 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require: at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Página 84 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye : and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Página 118 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Página 64 - Then came Peter to him, and said ; Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him ? till seven times ? Jesus saith unto him ; I say not unto thee, until seven times, but until seventy times seven.
Página 116 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Página 117 - The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.