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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Page 82
A dense mass of human beings now thronged the streets and avenues in the
neighborhood of the fire - the roofs were covered with men and women , faithfully
plying water from buckets , to extinguish the falling fire ; but the course of the
raging ...
A dense mass of human beings now thronged the streets and avenues in the
neighborhood of the fire - the roofs were covered with men and women , faithfully
plying water from buckets , to extinguish the falling fire ; but the course of the
raging ...
Page 83
The wind then changed to the west , and drove the flames , in one broad ,
unbroken sheet , horizontally , so as to fire almost every thing in its course up the
Monongahela river , until the work of destruction ceased for want of fuel , having ...
The wind then changed to the west , and drove the flames , in one broad ,
unbroken sheet , horizontally , so as to fire almost every thing in its course up the
Monongahela river , until the work of destruction ceased for want of fuel , having ...
Page 105
With a blush , I write it , this course is sometimes most inhumanly pursued in
churches , against a member who becomes unable to pay another member in the
same church . I have known instances of this kind , that would disgrace a savage
...
With a blush , I write it , this course is sometimes most inhumanly pursued in
churches , against a member who becomes unable to pay another member in the
same church . I have known instances of this kind , that would disgrace a savage
...
Page 266
Their anticipations are strong , their imaginations ever on the wing , their hopes
extravagant , their judgment weak , their experience green ; and , like the kite ,
they are carried by various currents of wind , in a zigzag course , up to adult age .
Their anticipations are strong , their imaginations ever on the wing , their hopes
extravagant , their judgment weak , their experience green ; and , like the kite ,
they are carried by various currents of wind , in a zigzag course , up to adult age .
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But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand ; neither
seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences ; consulting the natural
course of things ; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of ...
But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand ; neither
seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences ; consulting the natural
course of things ; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams 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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