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... passions by the strength of reason , that triumph of moral energy over the senses and their appetites , and that endurance of personal privations and self - denials , which with him ( even under all the excitements of ambition and incen ...
... passions by the strength of reason , that triumph of moral energy over the senses and their appetites , and that endurance of personal privations and self - denials , which with him ( even under all the excitements of ambition and incen ...
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... passions ? And has not man , who denies every right that interferes with his own supremacy , sub- mitted to the spell which undermines it ; and , by thus giving influence , direct or indirect , where he has withheld knowledge and denied ...
... passions ? And has not man , who denies every right that interferes with his own supremacy , sub- mitted to the spell which undermines it ; and , by thus giving influence , direct or indirect , where he has withheld knowledge and denied ...
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... passions , he inti- mated his preference by spitting in her face , and forcing her to his den . Thus affianced through con- tempt and suffering , the servant submitted , and the master assumed , uncontrolled , a power of life , death ...
... passions , he inti- mated his preference by spitting in her face , and forcing her to his den . Thus affianced through con- tempt and suffering , the servant submitted , and the master assumed , uncontrolled , a power of life , death ...
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... passions and wasteful violence . Where to - day he stood ferocious and powerful , to- morrow not a trace of his savage existence is to be found ; where his warriors were lately congregated in fierce array , the rank grass of the prairie ...
... passions and wasteful violence . Where to - day he stood ferocious and powerful , to- morrow not a trace of his savage existence is to be found ; where his warriors were lately congregated in fierce array , the rank grass of the prairie ...
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... passions are already matured , may be assigned as the origin of polygamy - that institute which has the most impeded the progress of society , wherever it has been perpetuated . It is an awful and heart - rending act to WOMEN OF THE ...
... passions are already matured , may be assigned as the origin of polygamy - that institute which has the most impeded the progress of society , wherever it has been perpetuated . It is an awful and heart - rending act to WOMEN OF THE ...
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Page 11 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 135 - Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way. 23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat.
Page 78 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness ; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings : So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 163 - Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign : howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the Lord.
Page 172 - Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
Page 66 - For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
Page 146 - Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal : for as his name is, so is he ; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him : but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
Page 333 - Instead of the little passions which so frequently perplex a female reign, the steady administration of Zenobia was guided by the most judicious maxims of policy. If it was expedient to pardon, she could calm her resentment; if it was necessary to punish, she could impose silence on the voice of pity.
Page 213 - Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, Against whom thou hast dealt treacherously : Yet is she thy com panion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Page 147 - And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee...