Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson ...: Written by Himself at Different Intervals, and Revised in 1814, Volume 2

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1818 - Bishops
 

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Page 145 - This was the Edict of the Grand Duke of Tuscany for the Reform of Criminal Law in his Dominions.
Page 353 - All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
Page 419 - In September I received a letter from Dr. Marsh, (Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge,) enclosing a prospectus of an intended national society for the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church, and requesting to know whether I would assist in the promotion and guidance of such.
Page 220 - Therefore, of natural effects of the same kind, the same causes are to be assigned, as far as it can be done ; as of respiration in man...
Page 102 - On the best means of converting certain portions of grassland into tillage without exhausting the soil, and of returning the same to grass, after a certain period, in an improved state, or at least without injury.
Page 442 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right ; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 259 - What has been the influence of the Reformation by Luther, on the political situation of the different states of Europe, and on the progress of knowledge !
Page 287 - What is this thing called orthodoxy, which mars the fortunes of honest men, misleads the judgment of princes, and occasionally endangers the stability of thrones ? In the true meaning of the term, it is a sacred thing to which every denomination of Christians lays an arrogant and exclusive claim, but to which no man, no assembly of men, since the apostolic age, can prove a title.
Page 204 - Adeo quanto rerum minus, tanto minus cupiditatis erat; nuper divitiae avaritiam et abundantes voluptates desiderium per luxum atque libidinem pereundi perdendique omnia invexere.

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