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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I have more than once seen the furniture of a house in a mass of ruin , the work of an angry moment . I have seen anger make wives unhappy , alienate husbands , spoil children , derange all harmony , and disturb the quiet of a whole ...
I have more than once seen the furniture of a house in a mass of ruin , the work of an angry moment . I have seen anger make wives unhappy , alienate husbands , spoil children , derange all harmony , and disturb the quiet of a whole ...
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It is another name for disinterested , lofty , unadulterated love — the attribute of Deity , that moved Him to provide a city of refuge for our fallen , ruined race , when exposed to the vengeance and penalty , imposed by the holy law ...
It is another name for disinterested , lofty , unadulterated love — the attribute of Deity , that moved Him to provide a city of refuge for our fallen , ruined race , when exposed to the vengeance and penalty , imposed by the holy law ...
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... to the cabinet and the field ; when the women exchanged the kitchen for the drawing room ; corruption supplanted virtue ; the genius of LIBERTY veiled its face , and fled ; dissolution followed - ruin closed the scene .
... to the cabinet and the field ; when the women exchanged the kitchen for the drawing room ; corruption supplanted virtue ; the genius of LIBERTY veiled its face , and fled ; dissolution followed - ruin closed the scene .
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3 Care , fatigue , vexation , envy , jealousy , loss of health , and a waste of wealth ; are the bitter fruits she gives to her devotees ; often producing the consumption of poverty , and the pleurisy of blue ruin .
3 Care , fatigue , vexation , envy , jealousy , loss of health , and a waste of wealth ; are the bitter fruits she gives to her devotees ; often producing the consumption of poverty , and the pleurisy of blue ruin .
Page 49
... down the inclined plane of bankruptcy , increasing the mass of broken fragments and general ruin , all so commingled , that a Philadelphia lawyer , aided by constables and sheriffs , can bring but little order out of the confusion .
... down the inclined plane of bankruptcy , increasing the mass of broken fragments and general ruin , all so commingled , that a Philadelphia lawyer , aided by constables and sheriffs , can bring but little order out of the confusion .
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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 | 328 pages |
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