A Socratic discourse on truth and faithfulness; the sequel to A father's instructions [by T. Percival].1781 - 79 |
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Thomas Percival. SOCRATIC A DISCOURSE ON TRUTH AND FAITHFULNESS ; IN WHICH THE NATURE , EXTENT , AND OBLIGATION , M TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS BRANCHES AND SUBORDINATIONS O F THESE ORAL DUTIES ARE EXPLAINED , ILLUSTRATED , AND ENFORCED BY ...
Thomas Percival. SOCRATIC A DISCOURSE ON TRUTH AND FAITHFULNESS ; IN WHICH THE NATURE , EXTENT , AND OBLIGATION , M TOGETHER WITH THE VARIOUS BRANCHES AND SUBORDINATIONS O F THESE ORAL DUTIES ARE EXPLAINED , ILLUSTRATED , AND ENFORCED BY ...
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... natural principles . After the battle of Culloden , in the year 1745 , a reward of thirty thousand pounds was offered to any one , who should discover or deliver up the young Pretender . He had taken refuge with the Kennedies , two ...
... natural principles . After the battle of Culloden , in the year 1745 , a reward of thirty thousand pounds was offered to any one , who should discover or deliver up the young Pretender . He had taken refuge with the Kennedies , two ...
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... natural right , having learned that his old mafter was arrefted , and likely to be condemned for a capital crime , came into the court of juftice ; affumed the guilt of the fact ; fuffered himself to be imprifoned ; brought false ...
... natural right , having learned that his old mafter was arrefted , and likely to be condemned for a capital crime , came into the court of juftice ; affumed the guilt of the fact ; fuffered himself to be imprifoned ; brought false ...
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... the execution of justice . .. This may be an act of good - nature and humanity , " he cb- ferves , " but it is contrary to the good of the public , << For For although a private citizen may dispense with " fatisfaction Ο Ν II TRUTH .
... the execution of justice . .. This may be an act of good - nature and humanity , " he cb- ferves , " but it is contrary to the good of the public , << For For although a private citizen may dispense with " fatisfaction Ο Ν II TRUTH .
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... Truth is so important , and of fo delicate a nature , that every poffible precaution fhould be em- * See Robertfon's Hift . of America , Vol . I. Book 2 . ployed ployed to extenuate its violation , although the facri- fice ON 25 TRUTH .
... Truth is so important , and of fo delicate a nature , that every poffible precaution fhould be em- * See Robertfon's Hift . of America , Vol . I. Book 2 . ployed ployed to extenuate its violation , although the facri- fice ON 25 TRUTH .
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Strona 74 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Strona 60 - For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles : but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
Strona 61 - Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Strona 20 - Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt Thou rear it up in three days ? But He spake of the temple of His body.
Strona 21 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it.
Strona 79 - But the taste for natural beauty is subservient to higher purposes than those which have been enumerated ; and the cultivation of it not only refines and humanizes, but dignifies and exalts the affections. It elevates them to the admiration and love of that Being who is the Author of all that is fair, sublime, and good in the creation.
Strona 36 - Spanish merchants, with sentiments suitable to their usual integrity, sustained the whole loss, and indemnified the foreigners by whom they were employed. The fraud was detected, and the treasurer of the revenue in Peru, the author of it, was publicly burnt.
Strona 60 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews...
Strona 41 - True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to HIM who made us, and to the common nature of which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants; and from just views of the condition, and the duty of man.
Strona 38 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground...