The Moral Probe: Or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things |
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If multitudes , who are hard run to get bread , would leave our pent up cities , and occupy and improve the millions of fine land in our country , yet unlocated , it would greatly enhance individual happiness and public good .
If multitudes , who are hard run to get bread , would leave our pent up cities , and occupy and improve the millions of fine land in our country , yet unlocated , it would greatly enhance individual happiness and public good .
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In our Christian land , liars are more annoying , and as common as musquetoes in August , and may be found even in our churches . How great the contrast in morals ! Some wicked parents teach this vice to their children purposely , as an ...
In our Christian land , liars are more annoying , and as common as musquetoes in August , and may be found even in our churches . How great the contrast in morals ! Some wicked parents teach this vice to their children purposely , as an ...
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It was the motto of our revolutionary sires , and is still the watch word of every old school patriot among us — the Simon Pure republicans of our land — the salt of our free institutions . True , we have much of the paper currency of ...
It was the motto of our revolutionary sires , and is still the watch word of every old school patriot among us — the Simon Pure republicans of our land — the salt of our free institutions . True , we have much of the paper currency 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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That cool , deliberate murder should be tolerated in this land of gospel light and moral reform , is as astonishing , as it is humiliating and disgraceful . And that 56 THE PROBE . DUELLING, a cowardly practice.
That cool , deliberate murder should be tolerated in this land of gospel light and moral reform , is as astonishing , as it is humiliating and disgraceful . And that 56 THE PROBE . DUELLING, a cowardly practice.
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