Three Years in North America, Volume 2R. Cadell, 1833 - 544 páginas |
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... church and state , the committee do not feel disposed to impugn their motives ; and what- ever may be advanced in opposition to the measure , will arise from the fears entertained of its fatal tendency to the peace and happiness of the ...
... church and state , the committee do not feel disposed to impugn their motives ; and what- ever may be advanced in opposition to the measure , will arise from the fears entertained of its fatal tendency to the peace and happiness of the ...
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James Stuart. representatives , shall attempt to unite , in the remotest degree , church and state . " From the earliest period of time religious teachers have attained great ascendancy over the minds of the people ; and in every nation ...
James Stuart. representatives , shall attempt to unite , in the remotest degree , church and state . " From the earliest period of time religious teachers have attained great ascendancy over the minds of the people ; and in every nation ...
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... church and state . If a solemn act of legislation shall in one point define the law of God , or point out to the citizen one religious duty , it may with equal propriety define every part of divine revelation and enforce every religious ...
... church and state . If a solemn act of legislation shall in one point define the law of God , or point out to the citizen one religious duty , it may with equal propriety define every part of divine revelation and enforce every religious ...
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... churches in peace . Our government furnishes very few bless- ings like our mails . They bear , from the centre of our re- public to its distant extremes , the acts of our legislative bodies , the decisions of the justiciary , and the ...
... churches in peace . Our government furnishes very few bless- ings like our mails . They bear , from the centre of our re- public to its distant extremes , the acts of our legislative bodies , the decisions of the justiciary , and the ...
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... that these acts should be made penal , to com- plete the system . Travelling on business or recrea- tion , except to and from church ; all printing , carrying ON SUNDAY MAILS . 27 receiving , and reading of 26 OFFICIAL REPORT.
... that these acts should be made penal , to com- plete the system . Travelling on business or recrea- tion , except to and from church ; all printing , carrying ON SUNDAY MAILS . 27 receiving , and reading of 26 OFFICIAL REPORT.
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Página 186 - The sire turns o'er with patriarchal grace The big ha' -bible, ance his father's pride ; His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin and bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship GOD !
Página 186 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare; .Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And ' Let us worship God !* he says, with solemn air.
Página 187 - From scenes like these, old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her lov'd at home, rever'd abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God'; And certes, in fair Virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind; What is a lordling's pomp?
Página 142 - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Página 34 - During almost fifteen centuries, has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits ? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy ; ignorance and servility in the laity ; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
Página 32 - If all men are by nature equally free and independent," all men are to be considered as entering into society on equal conditions; as relinquishing no more, and therefore retaining no less, one than another, of their natural rights. Above all, are they to be considered as retaining an " equal title to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience.
Página 186 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope " springs exulting on triumphant wing...
Página 113 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Página 234 - This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States ; and I have just given to England a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride.
Página 31 - It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics of the late revolution. The free of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.