Cases of Conscience: Or, Lessons in Morals for the Use of the Laity |
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Page 38 - Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour : for we are members one of another.
Page 39 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 108 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 42 - If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Page 84 - Quegli ch' usurpa in terra il luogo mio, II luogo mio, il luogo mio che vaca Nella presenza del Figliuol di Dio, Fatto ha del cimiterio mio cloaca Del sangue e della puzza, onde 'l perverso Che cadde di quassù laggiù si placa'. Di quel color che per lo sole avverso Nube dipinge da sera e da mane, Vid...
Page 39 - I should be the most ungrateful of men if I did not acknowledge and wish it to be known that it was DAVID RITTKNHOUSK who enabled me to be useful.
Page xiii - May there not be some danger, that the Sovereign may violate the Constitution without just cause, under the illusion of error, or the impulse of passion ? " ' M. — Errors and passions are the maladies of the human race : but the blessings of health ought not to be refused through the fear of sickness !'
Page ix - ... proceedings of the Government, while they have a kind of armistice with it, and it is the class beneath them that bears the brunt of the struggle. The Church at Naples is presided over by a Cardinal Archbishop of high birth, simple manners, and entire devotion to the. duties of his calling, who, I am certain, is entirely incapable of either participating in or conniving at any proceedings unworthy in their character...