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103 105 108 109 111 IDLENESS , leads to crime INCONSISTENCY , evils of INGRATITUDE , baseness of .. INEQUALITIES OF LIFE , Agrarianism examined . 119 121 124 JEALOUSY , produces misery ... JUDGMENT , to be cautiously exercised .
103 105 108 109 111 IDLENESS , leads to crime INCONSISTENCY , evils of INGRATITUDE , baseness of .. INEQUALITIES OF LIFE , Agrarianism examined . 119 121 124 JEALOUSY , produces misery ... JUDGMENT , to be cautiously exercised .
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It is less exposed to temptations , calculated to lead frail men from the paths of virtue . If multitudes , who are hard run to get bread , would leave our pent up cities , and occupy and improve the millions of fine land in our country ...
It is less exposed to temptations , calculated to lead frail men from the paths of virtue . If multitudes , who are hard run to get bread , would leave our pent up cities , and occupy and improve the millions of fine land in our country ...
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Indifference or rebuke , destroys its elasticityto answer all inquiries , is to lead the child up the hill of science , and prepare him for future usefulness . Impress , deeply , upon the minds of your children , the importance of ...
Indifference or rebuke , destroys its elasticityto answer all inquiries , is to lead the child up the hill of science , and prepare him for future usefulness . Impress , deeply , upon the minds of your children , the importance of ...
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Let us fasten the lead of reason , and buoy of Revelation to the line of consistency , and let our soundings be deep and often . DEATH . Death is the crown of life . Death wounds to cure ! we fall , we rise , we reign .
Let us fasten the lead of reason , and buoy of Revelation to the line of consistency , and let our soundings be deep and often . DEATH . Death is the crown of life . Death wounds to cure ! we fall , we rise , we reign .
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They both lead to destruction , and are deprecated by all good men . The one is a relic of the barbarous ages — the other is somewhat older , having first been imposed on old mother Eve , by the devil . That cool , deliberate murder ...
They both lead to destruction , and are deprecated by all good men . The one is a relic of the barbarous ages — the other is somewhat older , having first been imposed on old mother Eve , by the devil . That cool , deliberate murder ...
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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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