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It meets every case in time , and is the golden chain that reaches from Earth to Heaven . It teaches us our native dignity , the design of our creation , the duties we owe to our God , ourselves , our families , our parents ...
It meets every case in time , and is the golden chain that reaches from Earth to Heaven . It teaches us our native dignity , the design of our creation , the duties we owe to our God , ourselves , our families , our parents ...
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By condescension , I mean not that any one shall yield a single thing that is not clearly right , or submit to any thing clearly wrong — but if we meet another in straitened circumstances , when he can neither go back or forward ...
By condescension , I mean not that any one shall yield a single thing that is not clearly right , or submit to any thing clearly wrong — but if we meet another in straitened circumstances , when he can neither go back or forward ...
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The seller , in addition to a fair profit for cash in hand , adds a larger per cent . to meet losses from bad debts , but which often falls far short of the mark . Each purchaser , who is ultimately able to pay , bears the proportionate ...
The seller , in addition to a fair profit for cash in hand , adds a larger per cent . to meet losses from bad debts , but which often falls far short of the mark . Each purchaser , who is ultimately able to pay , bears the proportionate ...
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... it pursues noble ends by honorable means ; it shuns all appearance of evil , and meets , with fortitude and resignation , the ills flesh is heir to ; it applies the touchstone of plain , common sense , aided by Revelation , to every ...
... it pursues noble ends by honorable means ; it shuns all appearance of evil , and meets , with fortitude and resignation , the ills flesh is heir to ; it applies the touchstone of plain , common sense , aided by Revelation , to every ...
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... who alone are prepared to meet , with calm submission , the keen and chilling winds of misfortune , and who , above all others , exercise the virtue of gratitude , in the full perfection of its native beauty . HAPPINESS .
... who alone are prepared to meet , with calm submission , the keen and chilling winds of misfortune , and who , above all others , exercise the virtue of gratitude , in the full perfection of its native beauty . HAPPINESS .
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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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