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During the last fifteen years , I had spent much time in writing a series of essays , similar to the following , which , with most of my other effects , were consumed by the calamitous fire at Pittsburgh , on the tenth day of April last ...
During the last fifteen years , I had spent much time in writing a series of essays , similar to the following , which , with most of my other effects , were consumed by the calamitous fire at Pittsburgh , on the tenth day of April last ...
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Fires , brief history of - one at Pittsburgh FLATTERY , meanness of FRIENDSHIP , cautions relative to 77 86 87 89 92 GAMBLING , evils of GENIUS , essence of power . GOVERNMENT , its proper foundation GRATITUDE , defined — its influence ...
Fires , brief history of - one at Pittsburgh FLATTERY , meanness of FRIENDSHIP , cautions relative to 77 86 87 89 92 GAMBLING , evils of GENIUS , essence of power . GOVERNMENT , its proper foundation GRATITUDE , defined — its influence ...
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... contact with anger , it is like the meeting of two fires — the conflagration and damage are increased . As water extinguishes the one , so will gentleness the other . A soft answer turneth away wrath . Be angry and sin not .
... contact with anger , it is like the meeting of two fires — the conflagration and damage are increased . As water extinguishes the one , so will gentleness the other . A soft answer turneth away wrath . Be angry and sin not .
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Mind what you run after ; avoid bubbles that will burst , and fire - works that end in smoke ; get that which is worth keeping , and can be kept . Fight against a hasty temper ; a spark may set a house on fire ; a fit of passion may ...
Mind what you run after ; avoid bubbles that will burst , and fire - works that end in smoke ; get that which is worth keeping , and can be kept . Fight against a hasty temper ; a spark may set a house on fire ; a fit of passion may ...
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... and the fire is not quenched . " We want but little here below , Nor want that little long . " CURRENTS . In the Baltic sea , there is an upper and under current , running in opposite directions , a fit emblem of the men and customs ...
... and the fire is not quenched . " We want but little here below , Nor want that little long . " CURRENTS . In the Baltic sea , there is an upper and under current , running in opposite directions , a fit emblem of the men and customs ...
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| Title | 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 |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The author, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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