Catholic and Protestant Nations Compared: In Their Threefold Relations to Wealth, Knowledge, and Morality, Bände 1-2John P. Jewett, 1855 |
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Seite 18 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Seite 18 - King, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Seite 29 - ... it easy to surmount the scruples of their partisans, even if they were able to get over their own. Hitherto no one, in the United States, has dared to advance the maxim, that everything is permissible with a view to the interests of society...
Seite 18 - Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia...
Seite 187 - By the avowal even of their enemies,' it is remarked, ' they combined the qualities of the citizen — that is to say, respect for the law, application to their work, attachment to their duties, and the old parsimony and frugality of the burgher...
Seite 1 - Saviour told us to beware of them which come in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves ; ye shall know them by their fruits ; a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit ; wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Seite 245 - Scripture history ; and every wise man will rejoice in this ; for, with three fourths of the population, morality can be instilled only through the medium of religion. Luther's forcible and popular translation of the Bible is in circulation, from one end of Protestant Germany to the other, and has greatly aided in the moral and religious education of the people.
Seite 191 - Catholic, had manifested an intention of entering a church, had joined in a prayer, or made the sign of the cross, or kissed an image of the Virgin...
Seite 30 - America, one of the freest and most enlightened nations in the world fulfil with fervor all the outward duties of religion. On my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention ; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. ( In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching...
Seite 124 - Ulster is at least fifty years ahead of its sister provinces in all the true elements of national progress ; and in its general aspect so much more resembles Britain than Ireland, that one could almost fancy some physical convulsion to have severed it from the one island, and attached it to the...