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... happiness of the world and true national glory , would be frustrated in the Senate . The delay has been , without doubt , injurious ; but a kind Providence may bring more good than evil out of it . As our natures are constituted , it ...
... happiness of the world and true national glory , would be frustrated in the Senate . The delay has been , without doubt , injurious ; but a kind Providence may bring more good than evil out of it . As our natures are constituted , it ...
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... happiness of mankind ; and , although I dare not promise myself that it can be perpetually maintained , yet , if , by the inculcations of reason or religion , the perversities of our nature can be so far cor- rected , as sometimes to ...
... happiness of mankind ; and , although I dare not promise myself that it can be perpetually maintained , yet , if , by the inculcations of reason or religion , the perversities of our nature can be so far cor- rected , as sometimes to ...
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... happiness . " United we stand , divided we fall , " is our motto . Now what is so likely to bring about that disastrous event as a military spirit ? Let us look into our own history , and see what have been the dangers we have passed ...
... happiness . " United we stand , divided we fall , " is our motto . Now what is so likely to bring about that disastrous event as a military spirit ? Let us look into our own history , and see what have been the dangers we have passed ...
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... happiness ; and might imagine , that God had set the Devil to do the work of Gabriel - that a battle was the har- vest of Heaven , and the reaping of it com- mitted to Moloch . But for those , who believe that the wicked shall be turned ...
... happiness ; and might imagine , that God had set the Devil to do the work of Gabriel - that a battle was the har- vest of Heaven , and the reaping of it com- mitted to Moloch . But for those , who believe that the wicked shall be turned ...
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... be admitted with- in the pale of civilized society , and it would be well for the peace and happiness of man- kind if all the world were of the same opinion . NO . 28 . SENTIMENTS OF DR . FRANKLIN , THE PROFESSION OF ARMS A TRADE . 179.
... be admitted with- in the pale of civilized society , and it would be well for the peace and happiness of man- kind if all the world were of the same opinion . NO . 28 . SENTIMENTS OF DR . FRANKLIN , THE PROFESSION OF ARMS A TRADE . 179.
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Page 158 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 131 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home - taxes on the raw material - taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health - on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal - on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice - on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride...
Page 181 - The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas — a remnant of the ancient piracy — though it may be accidentally beneficial to particular persons, is far from being profitable to all engaged in it, or to the nation that authorizes it.
Page 132 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 131 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon...
Page 110 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with...
Page 111 - But at the conclusion of a ten years' war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes and the expense of millions, but by contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations...
Page 12 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in dang-er of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment...
Page 11 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it.
Page 182 - ... who, besides, spend what they get in riot, drunkenness, and debauchery, lose their habits of industry, are rarely fit for any sober business after a peace, and serve only to increase the number of highwaymen and housebreakers.