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Is it then a labor of love such love as we cherish for ourselves to strip a child of Adam of all the prerogatives and privileges which are his inalienable birth-right? To obscure his reason, crush his will, and trample on his immortality? To strike home to the inmost of his being, and break the heart of his heart?
The tyrant fell at once from his pride, like a star from Heaven; and Osmyn, still addressing him as HAMET, at once increased his misery and his fears: 'O, said he, 'that the throne of Persia was thine! then should innocence enjoy her birth-right of peace, and hope should bid honest industry look upward.
And the world, like the patriarch, is often deceived; for, though the voice is Jacob's voice, yet the hands are the hands of Esau, and the False takes away the birth-right and the blessing from the True. Hence it is, that the world so often lifts up its voice and weeps. That very pleasing and fanciful Chinese Romance, the Shadow in the Water, ends with the hero's marrying both the heroines.
I would cause you such work, as you should have small reason to reproach me with being slack at work. But you would do well to spare me this reproach, and to save your strength, till the owner of this house shall return, till the day when Ulysses shall return, when returning he shall enter upon his birth-right."
She could not rest till she had put this letter into the post with her own hand, addressed to, Audley at Lord Lansmere's. Scarce had it left her ere she repented. What had she done, resigned the birth-right of the child she was so soon to bring into the world, resigned her last hope in her lover's honour, given up her life of life and from belief in what? a report in a newspaper!
What anguish will torture your heart, The saints all enthron'd by his side, And you be compelled to depart. Too often, dear Saviour, have I Preferr'd some poor trifle to thee; How is it thou dost not deny The blessing and birth-right to me? No better than Esau I am, Though pardon and heaven be mine To me belongs nothing but shame, The praise and the glory be thine." The Little Pavior.
He presented me to the priest as his lawful offspring; and the law of Scotland, benevolent to the helpless child, will not allow him now to disown what he so formally admitted. I know my rights, and am determined to claim them." "You do not then intend to go on board the Middlesex? Think a little You will lose your voyage and your commission." "I will save my birth-right," answered Middlemas.
Thus were the inalienable rights and birth-right privileges of Onesimus, as a member of the human family, defined and protected by apostolic authority. To this impulse, he was confident Philemon would promptly and fully yield. How could he do otherwise? The thing itself was right.
But as soon as I had recollected with what inimitable Eloquence my Fellow-Labourers had exaggerated the Mischiefs of selling the Birth-right of Britons for a Shilling, of spoiling the pure British Blood with Foreign Mixtures, of introducing a Confusion of Languages and Religions, and of letting in Strangers to eat the Bread out of the Mouths of our own People, I became so humble as to let my Project fall to the Ground, and leave my Country to encrease by the ordinary Way of Generation.
He was deprived of all weapons; for, even if he succeeded in maliciously setting the son at variance with the father, it would serve no purpose, since even Roderick himself had not the power to deprive his eldest son of his birth-right, nor would he on principle have ever done so, no matter how his affections had been alienated from him.
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