The Age of Great CitiesJackson and Walford, 1843 - 376 psl. |
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324 psl. - LORD, remainest for ever ; thy throne from generation to generation. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? Turn thou us unto thee, 0 LORD, and we shall be turned ; renew our days as of old.
349 psl. - I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jôr'dan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
349 psl. - Keep therefore and do them ; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
18 psl. - go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters, and see wonders in the deep.
237 psl. - I have the authority of a high military officer, and also that of other persons, for saying that the streets of Manchester, at ten o'clock at night, are as retired as those of the most rural districts. When we look at the extent of this parish, containing at least 300,000 souls, — more than the population of the half of our counties, — can we be surprised that there is a great amount of immorality ? But a great proportion of that immorality is committed by those who have been already nursed in...
349 psl. - For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon liirafor? 8 And what nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day...
335 psl. - The sleek, fat, narrow-minded, wealthy drone, is now to be sought for on the episcopal bench, or in the prebendal stall of the Lutheran or Anglican churches ; the well-off, comfortable parish minister, yeoman-like in mind, intelligence, and social position, in the manse and glebe of the Calvinistic church. The poverty-stricken, intellectual recluse, never seen abroad, but on his way to or from his studies or church duties, living nobody knows how...
295 psl. - ... be nothing the worse of the addition of a little industry to earn a new coat to stick their honours upon — the people, be their forms of government what they may, are but in a low social and industrial condition — are ages behind us in their social economy, and in their true social...
124 psl. - ... what we call public opinion has set up a despotism, such as exists nowhere else ? Public opinion, — a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity ; deriving power no one knows from whom ; like an Asian monarch, unapproachable, unimpeachable, undethronable, perhaps illegitimate, — but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction; — and bringing the timid perpetually under an unworthy bondage of mean fear to...
219 psl. - ... that they should receive it from our hands in a safe and unobjectionable form. It is desirable also, that they should not be accustomed to consider, that there is anything like an opposition between the doctrines and precepts of our holy religion and other legitimate objects of intellectual inquiry ; or that it is difficult to reconcile a due regard to the supreme importance of the one with a certain degree of laudable curiosity about the other.