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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My object has been , to probe the festering wounds of human nature , and point the afflicted patient to a healing remedy . I have aimed to present simple axioms and short propositions , calculated to rouse the mental powers of iny ...
My object has been , to probe the festering wounds of human nature , and point the afflicted patient to a healing remedy . I have aimed to present simple axioms and short propositions , calculated to rouse the mental powers of iny ...
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PAUPERISM , causes and remedy ... , PERSPECTIVE , a glance at human nature Pillow , place for reflection ... PRESENCE OF MIND , advantages of Press , responsibility of editors ... PROCRASTINATION , evils of .
PAUPERISM , causes and remedy ... , PERSPECTIVE , a glance at human nature Pillow , place for reflection ... PRESENCE OF MIND , advantages of Press , responsibility of editors ... PROCRASTINATION , evils of .
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... that would amaze Æsculapius , are proclaimed to the wide world by trumpet - tongued newspapers , each of which is a certain cure for all the diseases flesh is heir to , and promises to restore the Methuselah age to the human race .
... that would amaze Æsculapius , are proclaimed to the wide world by trumpet - tongued newspapers , each of which is a certain cure for all the diseases flesh is heir to , and promises to restore the Methuselah age to the human race .
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Some conceited wights , who study party politics more than philosophy or ethics , call all the laudable desires of the human heart , ambition , aiming to strip the monster of its deformity , that they may use it , as the livery of ...
Some conceited wights , who study party politics more than philosophy or ethics , call all the laudable desires of the human heart , ambition , aiming to strip the monster of its deformity , that they may use it , as the livery of ...
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He is the cocoon of the human race - death ends his toils , and others reel off the glossy product of his labors . He is the father of more miseries than the prodigal - whilst he lives , he heaps them on himself and those around him .
He is the cocoon of the human race - death ends his toils , and others reel off the glossy product of his labors . He is the father of more miseries than the prodigal - whilst he lives , he heaps them on himself and those around him .
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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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