Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon, 2. kötet

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Parker son and Bourn, 1861

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9. oldal - And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand. And Saul said to him : " Whose son art thou, thou young man?" And David answered: "I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.
189. oldal - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
191. oldal - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me: What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
206. oldal - It deserves to be remarked, perhaps, that it is in the progressive state, while the society is advancing to the further acquisition, rather than when it has acquired its full complement of riches, that the condition of the labouring poor, of the great body of the people, seems to be the happiest and the most comfortable. It is hard in the stationary, and miserable in the declining state. The progressive state is in reality the cheerful and the hearty state to all the different orders of the society....
275. oldal - Quodcunque retro est efficiet, neque Diffinget infectumque reddet Quod fugiens semel hora vexit.
177. oldal - If we then cease taking and plundering the infidel ships, and making slaves of the seamen and passengers, our lands will become of no value for want of cultivation; the rents of houses in the city will sink one half; and the revenues of government arising from its share of prizes be totally destroyed!
40. oldal - ... and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

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