And when the time was ripe to diffuse the truth among the ethnics, it was not a senator of Rome or a philosopher of Athens who was personally appointed by our Lord for that office, but a Jew of Tarsus, who founded the seven churches of Asia.
From his biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli points out that the mission to spread Christian truth to the Gentiles was entrusted to a Jew, not a Roman or Greek.
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Those who have treated of the agrarian crimes of Ireland have remarked, that the facility with which these outrages have been committed has only been equalled by the difficulty of punishing them.
A murder, perpetrated at noonday, in the sight of many persons, cannot be proved in a court of justice.
Such a tenet would sully and impugn the doctrine that is the corner-stone of our faith and hope.
He always took large views and had no prejudices about things, whatever he might indulge in as to persons.
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