Duelling and the laws of honour examined and condemned1836 - 80 pages |
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... revenge , he executes the sentence ! A strange fact attends the further contrast . The man who executes the just sen- tence of the law of the land , is hated , despised , and shunned ; but the successful duellist , who murders his ...
... revenge , he executes the sentence ! A strange fact attends the further contrast . The man who executes the just sen- tence of the law of the land , is hated , despised , and shunned ; but the successful duellist , who murders his ...
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... revenge in the extreme , and lays no stress upon the virtues opposite to these . " If we examine the " laws of honour " with refe- rence to another of their pretended objects , viz . to vindicate the character of the accused , and ...
... revenge in the extreme , and lays no stress upon the virtues opposite to these . " If we examine the " laws of honour " with refe- rence to another of their pretended objects , viz . to vindicate the character of the accused , and ...
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... 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 which ...
... 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 which ...
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... revenge for long - suffering ; violence for gentleness ; evil for goodness ; pride for meekness ; and rashness for temperance . By the test here provided it must be clear to every candid mind the practice of the duellist will not bear ...
... revenge for long - suffering ; violence for gentleness ; evil for goodness ; pride for meekness ; and rashness for temperance . By the test here provided it must be clear to every candid mind the practice of the duellist will not bear ...
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... revenge . A few texts , however , will suffice . The Scriptures say ( Rom . xii . 19 ) , " Vengeance is MINE ; I will repay , saith the Lord . " But what says the duellist ? I will be the judge of my own injury ; the avenger of my own ...
... revenge . A few texts , however , will suffice . The Scriptures say ( Rom . xii . 19 ) , " Vengeance is MINE ; I will repay , saith the Lord . " But what says the duellist ? I will be the judge of my own injury ; the avenger of my own ...
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Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 84 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye : and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 116 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 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.