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In Politics , we have numerous advisers , most of them patriots in proportion to their interests , who counsel us to go with their party , right or wrong . In this matter , our own judgments should be well informed , and guide us .
In Politics , we have numerous advisers , most of them patriots in proportion to their interests , who counsel us to go with their party , right or wrong . In this matter , our own judgments should be well informed , and guide us .
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O cursed lust of gold , when for thy sake , The fool throws up his interest in both worlds , First stary'd in this — then damn'd in that to come . — Blair . A JUDICIOUS writer has well remarked , that avarice is the father of more ...
O cursed lust of gold , when for thy sake , The fool throws up his interest in both worlds , First stary'd in this — then damn'd in that to come . — Blair . A JUDICIOUS writer has well remarked , that avarice is the father of more ...
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Instead of advising with each other , and profiting by mutual counsel , husbands and wives too often seek the advice of others , who have no interest , and perhaps less capacity , in giving safe counsel . Many a husband would have been ...
Instead of advising with each other , and profiting by mutual counsel , husbands and wives too often seek the advice of others , who have no interest , and perhaps less capacity , in giving safe counsel . Many a husband would have been ...
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It is one of those terms that many measure by the sliding scale , so much in use by those whose judgments are warped by circumstances , who are men of principle according to their own interest ; whose consciences are as elastic as India ...
It is one of those terms that many measure by the sliding scale , so much in use by those whose judgments are warped by circumstances , who are men of principle according to their own interest ; whose consciences are as elastic as India ...
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Ask our ex - presidents , who are still on the stage of life , if they enjoyed as much happiness when the responsibilities of our national interest rested upon them , as when in private life ? No , will be the prompt reply .
Ask our ex - presidents , who are still on the stage of life , if they enjoyed as much happiness when the responsibilities of our national interest rested upon them , as when in private life ? No , will be the prompt reply .
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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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