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It is one of those terms that many measure by the sliding scale , so much in use
by those whose judgments are warped by circumstances , who are men of
principle according to their own interest ; whose consciences are as elastic as
India ...
It is one of those terms that many measure by the sliding scale , so much in use
by those whose judgments are warped by circumstances , who are men of
principle according to their own interest ; whose consciences are as elastic as
India ...
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For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest . ... But these
considerations , however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility ,
are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest .
For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest . ... But these
considerations , however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility ,
are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest .
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either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest . Antipathy
in one nation against another , disposes each more readily to offer insult and
injury , to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage , and to be haughty and intractable
...
either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest . Antipathy
in one nation against another , disposes each more readily to offer insult and
injury , to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage , and to be haughty and intractable
...
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the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war , as our interest ,
guided by justice , shall counsel . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a
situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why , by
interweaving ...
the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war , as our interest ,
guided by justice , shall counsel . Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a
situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why , by
interweaving ...
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It may be safely and profitably placed in the hands of youth of both sexes , and is
a source from which persons of riper years may draw lessons of interest and
improvement . CHAS . W. MOORE , [ Ed . M. Magazine , Boston . ] THE MORAL ...
It may be safely and profitably placed in the hands of youth of both sexes , and is
a source from which persons of riper years may draw lessons of interest and
improvement . CHAS . W. MOORE , [ Ed . M. Magazine , Boston . ] THE MORAL ...
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | L.C. Judson, 1849 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2015 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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