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Pagina viii
... proved fatal , it is most likely it would have cost him his life upon the scaffold . Who would have envied the father who survived him ? These few instances , which I have selected out of a multitude of others , are sufficient to show ...
... proved fatal , it is most likely it would have cost him his life upon the scaffold . Who would have envied the father who survived him ? These few instances , which I have selected out of a multitude of others , are sufficient to show ...
Pagina xi
... proving the law of honour , and practice of duelling , are contrary to common sense , and that they sanction vice instead of virtue . - The Second Part , showing them contrary to the law of God , and the precepts and doctrines of the ...
... proving the law of honour , and practice of duelling , are contrary to common sense , and that they sanction vice instead of virtue . - The Second Part , showing them contrary to the law of God , and the precepts and doctrines of the ...
Pagina xiv
... Proved as to love.- The same as to charity , by contrasting the marks with the conduct . - Opinions of heathen philosophers superior to duellists . - Duellist disregards philosophy , reasoning , and the law of God pp . 89-97 CHAPTER VI ...
... Proved as to love.- The same as to charity , by contrasting the marks with the conduct . - Opinions of heathen philosophers superior to duellists . - Duellist disregards philosophy , reasoning , and the law of God pp . 89-97 CHAPTER VI ...
Pagina 14
... proved to be guilty ; and the burthen of proof is thrown upon the accuser ; and he is called upon to prove that the accused is guilty . But with the law of honour , the case is quite different : 14 ON DUELLING .
... proved to be guilty ; and the burthen of proof is thrown upon the accuser ; and he is called upon to prove that the accused is guilty . But with the law of honour , the case is quite different : 14 ON DUELLING .
Pagina 15
... prove - what ? that he is innocent ? by no means ; this question the law of honour does not touch ; all that he is required to prove is , that he is reckless enough to risk his life , rather than bear the imputation of crime ; and this ...
... prove - what ? that he is innocent ? by no means ; this question the law of honour does not touch ; all that he is required to prove is , that he is reckless enough to risk his life , rather than bear the imputation of crime ; and this ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 84 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye : and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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.
Pagina 116 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Pagina 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.