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Page 113
In the days of the Apostles , no studied rhetoric was thrown about the story of
redeeming love ; simple , unadorned truth , enraptured the immortal mind , and
poured upon it a flood of celestial light , that led thousands in a day , to embrace
the ...
In the days of the Apostles , no studied rhetoric was thrown about the story of
redeeming love ; simple , unadorned truth , enraptured the immortal mind , and
poured upon it a flood of celestial light , that led thousands in a day , to embrace
the ...
Page 129
That knowledge is of most importance , that leads us in the shortest road to truth .
This is the kind that best answers the old definition of the term , Knowledge is
power . Small draughts , if they are from the foaming top of the fountain ,
intoxicate ...
That knowledge is of most importance , that leads us in the shortest road to truth .
This is the kind that best answers the old definition of the term , Knowledge is
power . Small draughts , if they are from the foaming top of the fountain ,
intoxicate ...
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When the press is made the instrument of circulating error , false hood , calumny ,
crimination , recrimination ; any thing but truth in its simple purity ; it is made to
say too much Let us all strive to arrest this evil , by commencing at the fountain ...
When the press is made the instrument of circulating error , false hood , calumny ,
crimination , recrimination ; any thing but truth in its simple purity ; it is made to
say too much Let us all strive to arrest this evil , by commencing at the fountain ...
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We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth , and listen to the song of that
syren , till she transforms us into beasts . Is this the part of wise men engaged in a
great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to be of the number of ...
We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth , and listen to the song of that
syren , till she transforms us into beasts . Is this the part of wise men engaged in a
great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to be of the number of ...
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Mr. Judson has embodied much excellent precept in his pages , and conveyed
truth in a pleasing and attractive form ; and we hope , that while the volume will
do good to the many , so many will purchase the volume , that it will do good to
the ...
Mr. Judson has embodied much excellent precept in his pages , and conveyed
truth in a pleasing and attractive form ; and we hope , that while the volume will
do good to the many , so many will purchase the volume , that it will do good to
the ...
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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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