The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things, Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History : with an Appendix ...The author, 1848 - 328 páginas |
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... increasing toil without enjoyment ; it is not that narrow , selfish disposition that starves those around it , and spurns the hungry poor when they ap- proach ; it is not the calculating spirit , that studies the rule of loss and gain ...
... increasing toil without enjoyment ; it is not that narrow , selfish disposition that starves those around it , and spurns the hungry poor when they ap- proach ; it is not the calculating spirit , that studies the rule of loss and gain ...
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... increasing errors on this subject — that of overshooting the mark . Too many have imbibed the idea , that to obtain a sufficient education to enable a man to appear advantageously upon the theatre , especially of public life ; his ...
... increasing errors on this subject — that of overshooting the mark . Too many have imbibed the idea , that to obtain a sufficient education to enable a man to appear advantageously upon the theatre , especially of public life ; his ...
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... increasing aristocratic land . Public life is a bore . Our public men are bored constantly by a horde of boor borers . Happiness is not an inmate of the confused arena of public life . In peaceful retirement , amidst the domestic and ...
... increasing aristocratic land . Public life is a bore . Our public men are bored constantly by a horde of boor borers . Happiness is not an inmate of the confused arena of public life . In peaceful retirement , amidst the domestic and ...
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... increased the burning tortures of his exile ; his towering intellect added a duplicate force to the consuming pangs of his disappointment . His fatal end should cool the ardor of all who have an inordinate desire for earthly glory ...
... increased the burning tortures of his exile ; his towering intellect added a duplicate force to the consuming pangs of his disappointment . His fatal end should cool the ardor of all who have an inordinate desire for earthly glory ...
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... increased with the increasing wind , which now became a hurricane , blowing from the south west , and carried the fire to the roofs of numerous buildings in a few minutes . A dense mass of human beings now thronged the streets and ...
... increased with the increasing wind , which now became a hurricane , blowing from the south west , and carried the fire to the roofs of numerous buildings in a few minutes . A dense mass of human beings now thronged the streets and ...
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The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of ... Levi Carroll Judson Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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Página 8 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Página 6 - Rodney, George Read, Thomas M'Kean. Maryland. — Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Virginia. — George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. North Carolina. — William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. South Carolina. — Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. Georgia. — Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.