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Lawyers can , and should be the promoters of social order ; peace - makers in community , keeping people out , instead of leading them into the labyrinth of law . If no lawyers were patronized , but those who are emphatically peace ...
Lawyers can , and should be the promoters of social order ; peace - makers in community , keeping people out , instead of leading them into the labyrinth of law . If no lawyers were patronized , but those who are emphatically peace ...
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No profession is more honourable , none as conducive to health , peace , tranquillity , and happiness . More independent than any other calling , it is calculated to produce an innate love of liberty . The farmer stands upon a lofty ...
No profession is more honourable , none as conducive to health , peace , tranquillity , and happiness . More independent than any other calling , it is calculated to produce an innate love of liberty . The farmer stands upon a lofty ...
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But when the oppression of rulers becomes so intolerable , as to induce the farmers of a country to leave their ploughs and peaceful firesides , and draw the avenging sword — let them beware — the day of retribution is ...
But when the oppression of rulers becomes so intolerable , as to induce the farmers of a country to leave their ploughs and peaceful firesides , and draw the avenging sword — let them beware — the day of retribution is ...
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Reader , if you desire peace of mind , shun ambition and the ambitious man . He will use you as some men do their horses , ride you all day without food , and give you post meat for supper . He will gladly make a bridge of you ...
Reader , if you desire peace of mind , shun ambition and the ambitious man . He will use you as some men do their horses , ride you all day without food , and give you post meat for supper . He will gladly make a bridge of you ...
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BENEVOLENCE . peace Soft it brings wherever it arrives , It builds our quiet— " latent hope revives , " Lays the rough paths of nature smooth and even And opens in each breast a little heaven . — Prior . " PURE benevolence is one of ...
BENEVOLENCE . peace Soft it brings wherever it arrives , It builds our quiet— " latent hope revives , " Lays the rough paths of nature smooth and even And opens in each breast a little heaven . — Prior . " PURE benevolence is one of ...
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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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