Miscellaneous Writings of George W. Burnap ... Collected and Revised by the AuthorJ. Murphy, 1845 - 343 páginas |
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... wisdom which is profitable to direct . In developing the causes of hard times , I shall , in an informal and indirect way , bring forward most of the principles of the science of political economy ; that science which teaches the origin ...
... wisdom which is profitable to direct . In developing the causes of hard times , I shall , in an informal and indirect way , bring forward most of the principles of the science of political economy ; that science which teaches the origin ...
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... wisdom , than to know how to spend money . It is the easiest thing ima- ginable to get rid of , and in the most foolish manner ; and people are apt to make a foolish use of it , just in proportion to their want of gen- eral information ...
... wisdom , than to know how to spend money . It is the easiest thing ima- ginable to get rid of , and in the most foolish manner ; and people are apt to make a foolish use of it , just in proportion to their want of gen- eral information ...
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... wisdom in the expendi- ture . Those who have no wisdom , in this respect , are necessarily poor ; because , if they get any thing , they expend it immediately for their own hurt . Therefore it is that Providence doles out to them what ...
... wisdom in the expendi- ture . Those who have no wisdom , in this respect , are necessarily poor ; because , if they get any thing , they expend it immediately for their own hurt . Therefore it is that Providence doles out to them what ...
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... wisdom will get the better of pride , action will restore health and cheerfulness to the mind , and many a person will learn , though late , the valuable lesson taught by Hesiod , almost three thousand years ago , that " half is ...
... wisdom will get the better of pride , action will restore health and cheerfulness to the mind , and many a person will learn , though late , the valuable lesson taught by Hesiod , almost three thousand years ago , that " half is ...
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... wisdom in the general conduct of affairs . Without this , the physical power of a nation is like the strength of the sightless Cyclop , working in the dark . Physical strength is generally available in proportion to the intelligence by ...
... wisdom in the general conduct of affairs . Without this , the physical power of a nation is like the strength of the sightless Cyclop , working in the dark . Physical strength is generally available in proportion to the intelligence by ...
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Página 119 - I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing...
Página 262 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken : and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven : and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Página 310 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Página 253 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Página 119 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 301 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Página 165 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Página 255 - And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof into brimstone, And the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day ; The smoke thereof shall go up for ever: From generation to generation it shall lie waste ; None shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Página 118 - I profess, sir, in my career, hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Página 119 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.