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I am, Sir, your most humble servant, A. Marriot. What a scene of fraud, double-dealing, and iniquity was here laid open! Cecilia, who at first meant to read every thing aloud, found the attempt utterly vain, for so much was she shocked, that she could hardly read on to herself. Last of all appeared a paper in Mr Harrel's own hand-writing, containing these words.
As it came nearer and nearer, the voice of the reader was again plainly heard: 'If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. 'For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be steadfast, and shalt not fear;
She then received the note, with the name of the street, and the palace she was to seek, a description of the person of the Neapolitan, with often-repeated cautions to be wary, and departed. "Which is the wiser here? Justice or iniquity?" In the constant struggle between the innocent and the artful, the latter have the advantage, so long as they confine themselves to familiar interests.
Hastings the justice to say, that, if he had known there was another man more accomplished in all iniquity than Gunga Govind Sing, he would not have given him the first place in his confidence. But there is another next to him in the country, whom you are to hear of by-and-by, called Debi Sing.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
And then you tell me that I am to own that I have been wrong! In what have I been wrong?" "He is your father, and I suppose you have said hard words to him." "Did I rebuke him because he had fraudulently kept me for so many years in the position of a younger son? Did I not forgive him that iniquity?" "But he says you are a younger son."
And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
Ideas of the iniquity of slavery floated through our land for three centuries, yet the slave pen and auction block still cursed our land. At last an enthusiasm for man as man and a great passion for the poor stood behind these ideas of human brotherhood, and as powder stands behind the bullet, flinging forth its weapons, slavery perished before the onslaught of the heart.
If ever there was an iniquity on this earth it's a State Church, and all the argufying in the world won't put that out of me." It happened that Northcote was in the poulterer's shop, talking to the poulterer himself at this moment, and he heard the conclusion of this speech delivered with much unction and force.
If, however, it be thought unjust to charge a good man's memory with an offence in which his part was only secondary, the following iniquity was wholly and exclusively his own. I relate the story without comment in the address of the injured person to More's successor. "To the Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor of England.
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