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If my arduous efforts to alleviate the miseries of my fellow creatures , produced by moral disease , shall be crowned with success , it will afford me great consolation . To raise higher the standard of morals , to promote social order ...
If my arduous efforts to alleviate the miseries of my fellow creatures , produced by moral disease , shall be crowned with success , it will afford me great consolation . To raise higher the standard of morals , to promote social order ...
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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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More independent than any other calling , it is calculated to produce an innate love of liberty . The farmer stands upon a lofty eminence , and looks upon the bustle of cities , the intricacies of mechanism , the din of commerce ...
More independent than any other calling , it is calculated to produce an innate love of liberty . The farmer stands upon a lofty eminence , and looks upon the bustle of cities , the intricacies of mechanism , the din of commerce ...
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In moments of cool reflection , the man who indulges it , views , with deep regret , the desolations produced by a summer storm of passion . Friendship , domestic happiness , self - respect , the esteem of others , and sometimes ...
In moments of cool reflection , the man who indulges it , views , with deep regret , the desolations produced by a summer storm of passion . Friendship , domestic happiness , self - respect , the esteem of others , and sometimes ...
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They feel deeply for the misfortunes of others , and say to them , be ye fed , warmed , and clothed , but from their abundance , do not contribute one cent , like too many who make pretensions to piety , but produce no more fruit than a ...
They feel deeply for the misfortunes of others , and say to them , be ye fed , warmed , and clothed , but from their abundance , do not contribute one cent , like too many who make pretensions to piety , but produce no more fruit than a ...
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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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