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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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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To make , and maintain laws of social order , is not , as some casuists have contended , a surrender of personal liberty , when that liberty is predicated on its legitimate foundation CONSISTENCY . 39.
To make , and maintain laws of social order , is not , as some casuists have contended , a surrender of personal liberty , when that liberty is predicated on its legitimate foundation CONSISTENCY . 39.
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ty , when that liberty is predicated on its legitimate foundation - virtue . The arrangements of a social compact , are a consolidation of personal liberty , like the consolidation of money in a co - partnership , for the purpose of ...
ty , when that liberty is predicated on its legitimate foundation - virtue . The arrangements of a social compact , are a consolidation of personal liberty , like the consolidation of money in a co - partnership , for the purpose of ...
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... corruption supplanted virtue ; the genius of LIBERTY veiled its face , and fled ; dissolution followed - ruin closed the scene . Fashion contributes largely to swell the upper current , now rolling its towering waves over our land .
... corruption supplanted virtue ; the genius of LIBERTY veiled its face , and fled ; dissolution followed - ruin closed the scene . Fashion contributes largely to swell the upper current , now rolling its towering waves over our land .
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... fatuus nurse can invent , intruding into all the avenues of life , scattering misery far and wide - faithless , fearless , uncompromising , and tyrannical . Reader , if you love freedom more than slavery , liberty more than thraldom ...
... fatuus nurse can invent , intruding into all the avenues of life , scattering misery far and wide - faithless , fearless , uncompromising , and tyrannical . Reader , if you love freedom more than slavery , liberty more than thraldom ...
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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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