Historical Sketches of the Native Irish and Their Descendants: Illustrative of Their Past and Present State with Regard to Literature, Education, and Oral InstructionOliver & Boyd, 1830 - 358 pages |
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... reader . At the same time , it is proper to state , without any disguise , that the present is simply another effort to clear away one of the most absurd and ungener- ous barriers to moral improvement , which ever existed in a civilized ...
... reader . At the same time , it is proper to state , without any disguise , that the present is simply another effort to clear away one of the most absurd and ungener- ous barriers to moral improvement , which ever existed in a civilized ...
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... reader will find that all these resolutions were as nothing , -that in no instance did they lead to any course of action , -that each of them was but the expression of an unpursued order - Vox et præ- terea nihil . He will find that so ...
... reader will find that all these resolutions were as nothing , -that in no instance did they lead to any course of action , -that each of them was but the expression of an unpursued order - Vox et præ- terea nihil . He will find that so ...
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... reader to what follows . Did this people constitute only a small proportion of the population , our duty by them would be the same ; but when their number in comparison with the aggre gate body has become so large , it is not saying too ...
... reader to what follows . Did this people constitute only a small proportion of the population , our duty by them would be the same ; but when their number in comparison with the aggre gate body has become so large , it is not saying too ...
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... reader . Interest him , he hopes , they will , but something beyond mere interest is intend- ed . As to their moral condition in past ages and the present hour , here are certain tracts of our own country or kingdom laid open for ...
... reader . Interest him , he hopes , they will , but something beyond mere interest is intend- ed . As to their moral condition in past ages and the present hour , here are certain tracts of our own country or kingdom laid open for ...
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... reader with some data , which may enable him to judge for himself . The sixth Section refers to regions in our native land of which most persons have never heard , and of which no distinct account is to be found in books ; but , as the ...
... reader with some data , which may enable him to judge for himself . The sixth Section refers to regions in our native land of which most persons have never heard , and of which no distinct account is to be found in books ; but , as the ...
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Page 297 - Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Page 329 - And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake ? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them ! And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
Page 306 - Now I say, that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers : And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy...
Page 309 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Page 327 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Page 307 - While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.
Page 323 - For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
Page 307 - I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother; but taking my leave < of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.
Page 328 - I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.
Page 288 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious...