The Moral Probe: Or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things |
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... virtue , that they may early learn to shun the former and practise the latter . Above all , teach them pure and undefiled religion . The sub- ject may appear trifling — it is so treated generally , and , because so treated , and because ...
... virtue , that they may early learn to shun the former and practise the latter . Above all , teach them pure and undefiled religion . The sub- ject may appear trifling — it is so treated generally , and , because so treated , and because ...
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... virtue of consist- ency must be more thoroughly and generally inculcated , Inconsistency is a rank , poisonous weed , and is taking deep root in our soil . Confined to no age or country , its unholy leaven , once introduced into the ...
... virtue of consist- ency must be more thoroughly and generally inculcated , Inconsistency is a rank , poisonous weed , and is taking deep root in our soil . Confined to no age or country , its unholy leaven , once introduced into the ...
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... virtue and intelligence of the mass , a free government depends . Let con- sistency , in all things , be practised by our people indi- vidually ; we will then insure the prosperity and safety of our free institutions , not otherwise ...
... virtue and intelligence of the mass , a free government depends . Let con- sistency , in all things , be practised by our people indi- vidually ; we will then insure the prosperity and safety of our free institutions , not otherwise ...
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... virtue . The arrangements of a social compact , are a consolidation of personal liberty , like the consolidation of money in a co - partnership , for the purpose of increasing , not of diminishing strength . This consolidation of ...
... virtue . The arrangements of a social compact , are a consolidation of personal liberty , like the consolidation of money in a co - partnership , for the purpose of increasing , not of diminishing strength . This consolidation of ...
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... the under current represent- ing the happy simplicity and virtue of our pilgrim fathers , and revolutionary patriots ; the upper , the 42 THE PROBE . CONSISTENCY, advantages CONTENTMENT, felicity CURRENTS, upper and under.
... the under current represent- ing the happy simplicity and virtue of our pilgrim fathers , and revolutionary patriots ; the upper , the 42 THE PROBE . CONSISTENCY, advantages CONTENTMENT, felicity CURRENTS, upper and under.
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