Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Honourable Henry Home of Kames: One of the Senators of the College of Justice, and One of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary in Scotland Containing Sketches of the Progress of Literature and General Improvement in Scotland During the Greater Part of the Eighteenth Century, 2. cilt

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814
 

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Sayfa 299 - is the stranger ? And Abraham answered and said, Lord, " he would not worship thee, neither would he call upon thy " name; therefore have I driven him out from before my '' face into the wilderness. And God said, Have I borne " with him these hundred ninety and eight years, and " nourished him, and clothed him, notwithstanding his
Sayfa 298 - the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth ? " And the man answered and said, I do not worship thy " God, neither do I call upon his name; for I have made to " myself a God, which abideth always in mine house, " and provideth me with all things. And Abraham's zeal
Sayfa 155 - has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of ** all the nations with which it trades, and " to consider their gain as its own loss. ** Commerce, which ought naturally to be " among nations, as among individuals, a " bond of union and friendship, has be" come the most fertile source of
Sayfa 276 - they be capable of having it wrought " into them by industry, and incorporated " there by practice; and whether it be " worth while to endeavour it. For in " many cases, all that we can do, or should " aim at, is to make the best of what nature " has given, to prevent the vices and faults " to which such a constitution is most
Sayfa 298 - came to pass after these things, that Abraham sat " in the door of his tent, about the going down of the sun. " And behold a man bent with age, coming from the way of " the wilderness, leaning on a staff. And Abraham arose " and met him, and said unto him, Turn in, I pray thee, and " wash thy feet, and tarry all night, and thou
Sayfa 298 - tent: and Abraham baked unleavened bread, and they " did eat. And when Abraham saw that the man blessed " not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not
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Sayfa 299 - was kindled against the man, and he arose, and fell upon " him, and drove him forth with blows into the wilderness. " And God called unto Abraham, saying, Abraham, where
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Sayfa 22 - .to be approved by an increasing party, I wrote a pamphlet, entitled, A Narrative-, &c. (which I think I sent you), to strengthen the hands of our weak Government, by rendering the proceedings of the rioters unpopular and odious. This had a good effect:

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