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Page 45
We also have a numerous train of gentlemen idlers , who pass down the stream
of life at the expense of their fellow passengers . They live well , and dress well ,
as long as possible , by borrowing and spunging , and then take to gambling ...
We also have a numerous train of gentlemen idlers , who pass down the stream
of life at the expense of their fellow passengers . They live well , and dress well ,
as long as possible , by borrowing and spunging , and then take to gambling ...
Page 100
Anatomists suppose each ventricle of the heart to contain from one and a half to
two ounces of blood , and that the heart pulsates over four thousand times in an
hour , passing over four hundred pounds of blood every sixty minutes . Twenty ...
Anatomists suppose each ventricle of the heart to contain from one and a half to
two ounces of blood , and that the heart pulsates over four thousand times in an
hour , passing over four hundred pounds of blood every sixty minutes . Twenty ...
Page 182
Not a few pass along , and appear in style too , who live by borrowing and
promising , and never paying . True , like caterpillars , when they have stripped
one orchard of its leaves , they are compelled to emigrate to another ; and having
been ...
Not a few pass along , and appear in style too , who live by borrowing and
promising , and never paying . True , like caterpillars , when they have stripped
one orchard of its leaves , they are compelled to emigrate to another ; and having
been ...
Page 220
The sly whisper , the mysterious hint , the anxious inquiry , the uncharitable
inference , gather importance and magnitude , as they pass from one to another ,
until they become dreadful realities in the public mind . By the small envenomed
...
The sly whisper , the mysterious hint , the anxious inquiry , the uncharitable
inference , gather importance and magnitude , as they pass from one to another ,
until they become dreadful realities in the public mind . By the small envenomed
...
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He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the
public good . He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and
pressing importance , unless suspended in their operation , till his assent should
be ...
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the
public good . He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and
pressing importance , unless suspended in their operation , till his assent should
be ...
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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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