The natural history of society in the barbarous and civilized state |
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Сторінка vii
... records in the original language ; not because he undervalues our authorized version , but because there is a suggestive simplicity in the Hebrew forms of speech which no translation could preserve , but which is of great value in ...
... records in the original language ; not because he undervalues our authorized version , but because there is a suggestive simplicity in the Hebrew forms of speech which no translation could preserve , but which is of great value in ...
Сторінка viii
... records of mistaken opinion , lessons of mutual toleration , mutual forbearance , and brotherly kindness , derived from our sharing a common nature ; so as in all things to maintain the influence of Christian charity , which " thinketh ...
... records of mistaken opinion , lessons of mutual toleration , mutual forbearance , and brotherly kindness , derived from our sharing a common nature ; so as in all things to maintain the influence of Christian charity , which " thinketh ...
Сторінка ix
... record of what has been already accomplished , and perhaps a guide to future discovery . To use the illustration of an Ameri- can poet , he has been anxious to leave " foot - prints on the sands of time " - Foot - prints , that perhaps ...
... record of what has been already accomplished , and perhaps a guide to future discovery . To use the illustration of an Ameri- can poet , he has been anxious to leave " foot - prints on the sands of time " - Foot - prints , that perhaps ...
Сторінка 24
... record that a unit has been subtracted from the amount of human existence . The uniformity which travellers and voyagers have discovered in savage life , is a condition but one degree higher than absolute starvation . Those who sink ...
... record that a unit has been subtracted from the amount of human existence . The uniformity which travellers and voyagers have discovered in savage life , is a condition but one degree higher than absolute starvation . Those who sink ...
Сторінка 30
... record incident , because all the incidents of such a state have a sad uniformity ; the history of to - day is that ... records . When we survey the history of nations ignorant of letters , we find generally that both in the Old and New ...
... record incident , because all the incidents of such a state have a sad uniformity ; the history of to - day is that ... records . When we survey the history of nations ignorant of letters , we find generally that both in the Old and New ...
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advance ancient animals aoul appears Archbishop Whately ascribed Asia attribute barbarous become believe Book of Genesis Book of Job called Carthage causes Chaldeans character chief Christianity circumstances civilization common condition consequently crime death degradation deities derived discovered divine domestic earth Egypt Egyptian enemies established evidence evil examination existence extent feelings feet Greece Greeks habits hand hence Herodotus human Idumea Indian indigence individual inhabitants invention Kirghiz knowledge labour land language Lenape less luxury ment moral mounds nations native nature necessary object observed Ohio origin passion peculiar Persians persons Peru Pharaoh Phoenicians polytheism possessed present principle probably produced progress pyramid of Cholula race records religion remarkable rendered Roman Rome savage savage nations says scarcely shew shewn slaves social society spirit tendency thing tion trees tribes truth tumuli village warrior Xochicalco Zealanders
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Сторінка 91 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you : he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen ; and some shall run before his chariots.
Сторінка 221 - There is the moral of all human tales ; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Сторінка 321 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Сторінка 29 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the Last Days.
Сторінка 109 - For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Сторінка 323 - WOE to them that go down to Egypt for help; And stay on horses, And trust in chariots, because they are many ; And in horsemen, because they are very strong; But they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, Neither seek the Lord...
Сторінка 299 - 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...
Сторінка 318 - God, to keep all. the words of this law and these statutes, to do them : that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left : to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Сторінка 59 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Сторінка 30 - Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee : thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.