Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867Little, Brown,, 1867 - United States |
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... human efforts can be devoted , than that of sowing the seeds of Christian knowledge , and cultivating the growth of Christian principle , in the minds and hearts of the young , through the agency of Sunday Schools . There is no object ...
... human efforts can be devoted , than that of sowing the seeds of Christian knowledge , and cultivating the growth of Christian principle , in the minds and hearts of the young , through the agency of Sunday Schools . There is no object ...
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... human motive and human action . It shapes , colors , directs , controls , and keeps in motion ( under God ) the whole course of public events ; realiz- ing , so far as any mortal influence can realize , the spirit of the living creature ...
... human motive and human action . It shapes , colors , directs , controls , and keeps in motion ( under God ) the whole course of public events ; realiz- ing , so far as any mortal influence can realize , the spirit of the living creature ...
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... human race . It is no longer the ridiculous ranting of some Bombastes Furioso which exclaims , " Attention , the uni- verse ! " There are writers and speakers in the Old World and in the New World , to whom the universe of intelligent ...
... human race . It is no longer the ridiculous ranting of some Bombastes Furioso which exclaims , " Attention , the uni- verse ! " There are writers and speakers in the Old World and in the New World , to whom the universe of intelligent ...
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... human voice , cease not to exist with the sounds to which they give rise . " — " Every atom , " says he , " impressed with good and with ill , retains at once the motions which philoso- phers and sages have imparted to it , mixed and ...
... human voice , cease not to exist with the sounds to which they give rise . " — " Every atom , " says he , " impressed with good and with ill , retains at once the motions which philoso- phers and sages have imparted to it , mixed and ...
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... human action . It may influence individuals . It may influence masses . It cannot rest indifferent . It cannot return unto me empty . It will mingle with the great current of Public Opinion in some part of its course , where it winds ...
... human action . It may influence individuals . It may influence masses . It cannot rest indifferent . It cannot return unto me empty . It will mingle with the great current of Public Opinion in some part of its course , where it winds ...
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Page 276 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Page 269 - We must be unanimous ; there must be no pulling different ways: we must all hang together." Franklin replied, " Yes, we must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
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