Memoirs of Granville Sharp, EsqHenry Colburn, 1820 - 524 páginas |
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Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq Prince Hoare,African Institution (London, England),Thomas Burgess Sin vista previa disponible - 1820 |
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Página 96 - The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa hath long been considered as a trade of great inhumanity, and under its present encouragement, we have too much reason to fear will endanger the very existence of your Majesty's American dominions.
Página 463 - Letters addressed to Granville Sharp, Esq. respecting his Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament.
Página iii - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters : they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Página 326 - Who hate the good, and love the evil; Who pluck off their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones ; Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them ; And they break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.
Página iii - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.
Página 517 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Página iii - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Página 199 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.
Página 162 - Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Página 443 - WITH THE SACRED STRAIN, •• GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, ON EARTH PEACE AND GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN," ON WHICH HIS LIFE PRESENTED ONE BEAUTIFUL COMMENT OF GLOWING PIETY AND UNWEARIED BENEFICENCE.