The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the College of New Jersey: On the Subjects of Moral and Political Philosophy, כרך 2D. Fenton for the author, 1812 |
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עמוד 18 - Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
עמוד 157 - And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house, and upon thy gates : That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LOUD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
עמוד 30 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
עמוד 328 - ... it is against the enterprising ambition of this department, that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy, and exhaust all their precautions.
עמוד 328 - But in a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited both in the extent and the duration of its power; and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly, which is inspired by a supposed influence over the people with an intrepid confidence in its own strength...
עמוד 75 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely and of good report ; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
עמוד 358 - Poland this year became the theatre of war. The Empress of Russia, the Emperor of Germany, and the King of Prussia, entered, by mutual consent, into that devoted country, laying waste with fire and sword, and taking to themselves its finest provinces.
עמוד 103 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy strength, and with all thy mind...
עמוד 172 - What free people would allow their legislators to dispose, in the same manner, of any other portion of their property ? — But if it were free from every...
עמוד 333 - Columbia as far as the quality of the soil and the nature and value of its productions are concerned, but not as to their quantity.