Word: sovereignly
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...says, 'of unconscious holiness is of an urgent and inevitable nature, it persuades the weak, the timid, the wavering, and the inquiring; it draws forth the affection and loyalty of all who are in a measure like-minded; and over the thoughtless or perverse multitude it exercises a sovereign, compulsory sway, bidding them fear and keep silence, on the ground of its own right Divine to rule them. And for that select number who feel themselves, as it were, individually addressed by the invitation of his example: 'By degrees they would discern more and more the traces of unearthly majesty...
...lower laws and conditions under which it lives are subordinate to higher laws, and that its bondage in a certain sphere becomes transformed into liberty when it is lifted up into a higher sphere where he that seweth and that is sewed are subject unto Him who is sovereign over both...
...Democratic Congress will remit to the states the rights that justly belong to them. The National Government will retain its sovereign power of taxation, but this taxation shall go no further than to meet necessary expenses. The Democratic party pledges itself to economy, and the luxuries of life shall bear the burdens of taxation...
...which he embodied in a revelation. By symbols he tells what the vision means to him. He sees first in the Lord strength and round about that strength beauty. Man has not always seen God as John saw him. There was a time when some men saw but the sovereign quality in him, and they were either defiant or distrustful; others saw but the beauty and mercy, there was a cross for no one, a caress for everyone. But we must see both the cross and the throne if we would have a true conception of God. The text also...
...Letters have been saved from a dim sense of their future use. The separation of the Germans and the French after the dismemberment of the Empire of Charlemagne is shown unconsciously by a treaty between Louis and Charles, his grandchildren, which was sanctioned by an oath repeated by each sovereign in the language of the other. Thus was shown that two nations had arisen. The German of the one was clear and distinct from the French of the other. This fact comes to us through the Eatin chronicler, who unconsciously has given a record of the separation of a people...