The Proscribed German Student: Being a Sketch of Some Interesting Incidents in the Life and Melancholy Death of the Late Lewis Clausing

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Van Nostrand & Dwight, 1836 - 244 pages
 

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Page 121 - began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves
Page 120 - And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts ; Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. (St.
Page 85 - of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task; But ever to do ill our sole delight: As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence, Out of our evil, seek to bring forth good, Our labor must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil: • Which oft-times may succeed, so as
Page 119 - said : Beware of the Scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the market-places,
Page 63 - language but their own; and, to render their empire secure and permanent, they instructed their subjects in the European art of war, regularly disciplining and forming them into regiments, to be an ever ready and standing defence
Page 143 - taxes or declare war, without the co'nsent of the states, which he alone has the power of convoking. No judgment can be given by a warrant. The liberty of the press is among the number of fundamental laws, which cannot be modified without the participation of both monarch and
Page 200 - therefore, be obviated in the following manner. Let them be prevailed upon, before they are dismissed, to give it under their hands, and swear, that they never will, directly or indirectly, either write or speak any thing to the disadvantage of the order; and let the superiors keep upon record the evil
Page 190 - has an aversion to; and if it be thought that she has a kindness for any one, let his vices and failings be represented to her in a proper light, that she may abhor the thoughts of altering her condition with any person whatsoever.
Page 85 - Shall grieve him, if I fail not, and disturb His inmost counsels from their destin'd aim—
Page 190 - so, that the widow may have such faith in him, as not to do the least thing without his advice, and his only; which he may occasionally insinuate to be the only basis of her spiritual edification.

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