Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

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John W. Parker, 1854
 

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Pagina 41 - ... and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Pagina 183 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Pagina 9 - And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Pagina 184 - And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish ; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.
Pagina 269 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Pagina 184 - Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law...
Pagina 178 - Straight forward goes The lightning's path, and straight the fearful path Of the can.non-ball. Direct it flies and rapid, Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches. My son ! the road, the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING .comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn-field and the hill of vines...
Pagina 183 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Pagina 178 - Direct it flies, and rapid ; Shattering that it may reach, and shattering what it reaches, My son ! the road the human being travels, That, on which BLESSING comes and goes, doth follow The river's course, the valley's playful windings, Curves round the corn field and the hill of vines, Honouring the holy bounds of property ! And thus secure, though late, leads to its end QUESTENBERG.

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