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Page 303 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.
Page 4 - Whatever is expedient, is right. It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it.
Page 224 - And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river, and her maidens walked along by the river's side ; and, when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. 6. And, when she had opened it, she saw the child ; and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him. and said, This ii one of the Hebrews
Page 460 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Page 4 - Whatever is expedient, is right." But then it must be expedient on the whole, at the long run, in all its effects collateral and remote, as well as in those which are immediate and direct ; as it is obvious, that, in computing consequences, it makes no difference in what way or at what distance they ensue.
Page 95 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 49 - Over the mountains And over the waves, Under the fountains And under the graves ; Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey ; Over rocks that are steepest Love will find out the way.
Page 378 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 303 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but 1 say unto you that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Page 300 - And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.