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 |
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... fountain of his love , for the good , on the other ; the sublimity of its language
caps the climax of Rhetoric . As a History of that grand ' epoch , when God said , “
Let there be light ; and there was light , ” it stands alone , clothed in the majesty of
...
... fountain of his love , for the good , on the other ; the sublimity of its language
caps the climax of Rhetoric . As a History of that grand ' epoch , when God said , “
Let there be light ; and there was light , ” it stands alone , clothed in the majesty of
...
Page 86
FLATTERY . Here is my throne , my kingdom is this breast , My diadem , the
wealth of light that shines , From your fair brow upon me . — Milman . MEN or
women who make a throne of vanity , a kingdom of self , and feast on the volatile
breath ...
FLATTERY . Here is my throne , my kingdom is this breast , My diadem , the
wealth of light that shines , From your fair brow upon me . — Milman . MEN or
women who make a throne of vanity , a kingdom of self , and feast on the volatile
breath ...
Page 97
... but that of benevolence — no light enjoyed , but that of charity ; unless it shall
be the warmth and light communicated from Heaven to the sincerely pious , who
alone are prepared to meet , with calm submission , the keen and chilling winds ...
... but that of benevolence — no light enjoyed , but that of charity ; unless it shall
be the warmth and light communicated from Heaven to the sincerely pious , who
alone are prepared to meet , with calm submission , the keen and chilling winds ...
Page 177
Let editors lay this to heart , and , if they love our country , and its free institutions
as they should , they will banish all venality from the press , and send forth a pure
stream of light ; the rays of burning truth , that will purify our political and moral ...
Let editors lay this to heart , and , if they love our country , and its free institutions
as they should , they will banish all venality from the press , and send forth a pure
stream of light ; the rays of burning truth , that will purify our political and moral ...
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Look at the multitudes , whose flimsy barks are constructed of the light materials
of sensual pleasure ; their vessels cannot live on a rough sea for a moment .
Look at those in the low black schooner , water logged with crime in all its varied
...
Look at the multitudes , whose flimsy barks are constructed of the light materials
of sensual pleasure ; their vessels cannot live on a rough sea for a moment .
Look at those in the low black schooner , water logged with crime in all its varied
...
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