On the constitution of the Church and State, according to the idea of each

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Hurst, Chance & Company, 1830 - 80 עמודים
 

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עמוד 15 - Their orators thou then extoll'st as those The top of eloquence — statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our Prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic, unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome.
עמוד 59 - It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
עמוד 149 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began; The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
עמוד 43 - We have game laws, corn laws, cotton factories, Spitalfields, the tillers of the land paid by poor rates, and the remainder of the population mechanized into engines for the manufactory of new rich men ; — yea, the machinery of the wealth of the nation made up of the wretchedness, disease and depravity of those who should constitute the strength of the nation...
עמוד 23 - The Clerisy of the nation, or national Church, in its primary acceptation and original intention, comprehended the learned of all denominations, the sages and professors of the law and jurisprudence, of medicine and physiology, of music, of military and. civil architecture, of the physical sciences...
עמוד 37 - In relation to the national Church, Christianity, or the Church, of Christ, is a blessed accident,* a providential boon, a grace of God, a mighty and faithful friend, the envoy indeed and liege subject of another State, but which can neither administer the laws nor promote the ends of this other State, which is not of the world, without advantage, direct and indirect, to the true interests of the States, the aggregate of which is what we mean by the world, that is, the civilized world.
עמוד 26 - EDUCATION, the nisus formativus of the body politic, the shaping and informing spirit, which educing, ie eliciting, the latent man in all the i: natives of the soil, trains them up to citizens of the country, free subjects of the realm.
עמוד 15 - This fundamental idea is at the same time the final criterion by which all particular frames of government must be tried: for here only can we find the great constructive principles of our representative system: those principles in the light of which it can alone be ascertained what are excrescences, symptoms of distemperature, and marks of degeneration, and what are native growths, or changes naturally attendant on the progressive development of the original germ, symptoms of immaturity, perhaps,...

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