Christian PoliticsLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - 445 pages |
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Page x
... hand , or , if at hand , might , by the very act of turning to them , unseasonably divert the reader's attention . It is to obviate these inconveniences ( which the writer himself has often experienced ) and not merely to swell the ...
... hand , or , if at hand , might , by the very act of turning to them , unseasonably divert the reader's attention . It is to obviate these inconveniences ( which the writer himself has often experienced ) and not merely to swell the ...
Page xi
... hand , he is encouraged by the indulgent manner in which a foriner work * was received by the public ; while , on the other , he is checked by a sense of his deficiencies , espe- cially on a subject where he is less in pos- session of ...
... hand , he is encouraged by the indulgent manner in which a foriner work * was received by the public ; while , on the other , he is checked by a sense of his deficiencies , espe- cially on a subject where he is less in pos- session of ...
Page 11
... hand , that there is scarce any one so disgraced by nature , unfavoured by edu- cation , or depressed by fortune , that may not , if he can find his place , obtain a degree of consequence . And who does not wish to be a great man ...
... hand , that there is scarce any one so disgraced by nature , unfavoured by edu- cation , or depressed by fortune , that may not , if he can find his place , obtain a degree of consequence . And who does not wish to be a great man ...
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... hand open themselves a way to offices of trust or power ; must he not be tempted to imagine that money an- swereth all things ; that it can both give lustre to merit where it is ; and amply sup- ply its place where it is wanting ...
... hand open themselves a way to offices of trust or power ; must he not be tempted to imagine that money an- swereth all things ; that it can both give lustre to merit where it is ; and amply sup- ply its place where it is wanting ...
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... hands of his Maker , was placed in the gar- den of Eden to dress and to keep it ; which service , whatever it meant , must doubtless have belonged equally to his offspring ; and we may probably suppose , that those por- tions of the ...
... hands of his Maker , was placed in the gar- den of Eden to dress and to keep it ; which service , whatever it meant , must doubtless have belonged equally to his offspring ; and we may probably suppose , that those por- tions of the ...
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