The Monthly Review, Volume 3Hurst, Robinson, 1834 - Books |
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Page 54 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury, but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury, that the Lord thy God may bless thee.
Page 54 - to the people. The passage in Exodus (xxii. 25) is in these words:— " If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.
Page 91 - The first is so contracted an aperture, I never could squeeze myself into it; the last I always hated—there was contamination in the very entrance. Thus abandoned of aim or view in life, with a strong appetite for sociability, as well from native hilarity as from a pride of observation and remark—a constitutional melancholy or
Page 394 - have they been cut off for their unfruitfulness, and cast out as an ' abominable branch.' But by reason of this should not our hearts be still more deeply affected on their account ? While ' the boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it,' ought we not to be moved to cry with the Psalmist,
Page 54 - thee. Take thou no usury of him, or increase : but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase: I am the Lord your God.
Page 22 - The first time that I ever took notice of him,' says that gentleman, ' was in the beginning of the Parliament held in November, 1640, when I vainly thought myself a courtly young gentleman, for we courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one
Page 90 - Beauty first gave utterance to his crowding thoughts ; with him love and poetry were coevals.'' " ' You know,' he says, in his communication to Moore, ' our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest. In my fifteenth
Page 54 - thou shalt relieve him, though he may be a stranger or sojourner ; that he may live with thee. Take thou no usury of him, or increase : but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase: I am the Lord your God.
Page 252 - He that stcaleth a man and selleth him, or if he be found in his hands, he shall surely be put to death.
Page 533 - of remembrance remain among men or Masons of so vile and perjured a wretch as I should be, were I ever to prove wilfully guilty of violating any part of this my solemn oath or obligation of a Master Mason. So help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same.