The English Republic...

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William James Linton
J. Watson, 1851

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Side 105 - ... them. Adore enthusiasm, the dreams of the virgin soul, and the visions of .early youth, for they are a perfume of paradise which the soul retains in issuing from the hands of its Creator. Respect, above all things, your conscience; have upon your lips the truth implanted by God in your hearts...
Side 103 - God and the People. God at the summit of the social edifice; the people, the universality of our brethren, at the base. God, the Father and Educator ; the people, the progressive interpreter of his law.
Side 294 - Quest. 14. Independently of the worship we owe the Emperor, are we called upon to respect the public authorities emanating from him ? Ans. Yes ; because they emanate from him, represent him, and act as his substitutes ; so that the Emperor is everywhere. Quest. 15. What motives have we to fulfil the duties above enumerated ? Ans. The motives are twofold — some natural, others revealed. Quest. 16. What are the natural motives? Ans. Besides the motives adduced, there are the following : — The Emperor...
Side 227 - Doubtless universal suffrage is an excellent thing. It is the only legal means by which a people may govern itself without risk of continual violent crises.
Side 294 - Worship, obedience, fidelity, the payment of taxes, service, love, and prayer, the whole being comprised in the words, worship and fidelity.
Side 295 - ... revealed motives are, that the Emperor is the Vicegerent and Minister of God to execute the Divine commands ; and, consequently, disobedience to the Emperor is identified with disobedience to God himself; that God will reward us in the world to come for the worship and obedience we render the Emperor, and punish us severely to all eternity should we disobey and neglect to worship him.
Side 345 - Half-hid in dewy grass, the mower blithe Sings to the day-star as he whets his scythe ; And to his babes, at eventide again, Carols as blithe a strain. O happy, happy land ! " The happy land ! Where, in the golden sheen of autumn eves, The...
Side 1 - He who wisely would restrain the reasonable soul of man within due bounds, must first himself know perfectly, how far the territory and dominion extends of just and honest liberty. As little must he offer to bind that which God hath loosened, as to loosen that which he hath bound. The ignorance and mistake of this high point hath heaped up one huge half of all the misery, that hath been since Adam.
Side 324 - I ought, as a rational agent, to be determined now by what I shall then wish. I had done, when I shall feel the consequences of my actions most deeply and sensibly.
Side 321 - ... whether my own, or another's, whether conceived of as consisting in one or more things, that is because it possesses that essential property common to all good, without which it would cease to be good at all, and which has a general tendency to excite certain given affections in my mind. I conceive that the knowledge of many different sorts of good must lead to the love or desire of all these, and that this knowledge of...

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