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Page 70
Reader ! the evils uncorrected by experience , and their consequences , that
have now passed in rehearsal , you must admit , involve , in one common ruin ,
wealth , health , reputation , and all the sources of human happiness , and
endanger ...
Reader ! the evils uncorrected by experience , and their consequences , that
have now passed in rehearsal , you must admit , involve , in one common ruin ,
wealth , health , reputation , and all the sources of human happiness , and
endanger ...
Page 117
Are you under the influence of fanaticism ? This is the tornado of Inconsistency ,
charged with the besom of destruction , leaving in its dismal wake , oceans of
blood , governments dissolved , and nations ruined . Are you an abettor or
tolerator ...
Are you under the influence of fanaticism ? This is the tornado of Inconsistency ,
charged with the besom of destruction , leaving in its dismal wake , oceans of
blood , governments dissolved , and nations ruined . Are you an abettor or
tolerator ...
Page 123
fatigue , want of rest , contracted disease , and premature death — and perhaps a
ruined estate , often follow . ... If in public life , they are a mark for the jealous , the
envious , the slanderer ; who are constantly plotting their ruin , and embittering ...
fatigue , want of rest , contracted disease , and premature death — and perhaps a
ruined estate , often follow . ... If in public life , they are a mark for the jealous , the
envious , the slanderer ; who are constantly plotting their ruin , and embittering ...
Page 237
The boy who is encouraged to spend pennies for gewgaws , too often acquires a
habit that ruins the man . ... and that a coarse filling , carelessly interwoven , may
ruin the texture of the fabric of the minds of their children , and all should reflect ...
The boy who is encouraged to spend pennies for gewgaws , too often acquires a
habit that ruins the man . ... and that a coarse filling , carelessly interwoven , may
ruin the texture of the fabric of the minds of their children , and all should reflect ...
Page 249
When I see children growing up in vice , drinking in corruption like water , I
conclude they are under the direction of a bad engineer — the wrong valve is
opened — they are in danger of ultimate ruin . When I see young men in full
chase after ...
When I see children growing up in vice , drinking in corruption like water , I
conclude they are under the direction of a bad engineer — the wrong valve is
opened — they are in danger of ultimate ruin . When I see young men in full
chase after ...
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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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