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... speak not of our universities and colleges , for this very reason ; because it is well known , that , with few exceptions , the moral and spiritual character of those who enter our superior seats of learning , is fixed before they go ...
... speak not of our universities and colleges , for this very reason ; because it is well known , that , with few exceptions , the moral and spiritual character of those who enter our superior seats of learning , is fixed before they go ...
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... and youth be thoroughly instructed in the principles of moral and religious obligation . I speak in no spirit of sectarianism . I do not ask that my neighbor shall be compelled to subscribe to my creed 56 DR . LABAREE'S LECTURE .
... and youth be thoroughly instructed in the principles of moral and religious obligation . I speak in no spirit of sectarianism . I do not ask that my neighbor shall be compelled to subscribe to my creed 56 DR . LABAREE'S LECTURE .
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... speaking of actors produced so much greater effect than that of clergymen . “ Because , " said Garrick , " we utter fiction as if it were truth , while you utter truth as if it were fiction ; " — thus clearly implying , that earnestness ...
... speaking of actors produced so much greater effect than that of clergymen . “ Because , " said Garrick , " we utter fiction as if it were truth , while you utter truth as if it were fiction ; " — thus clearly implying , that earnestness ...
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... speak out upon this subject as they should speak , and the community generally would take hold of it in serious earnest , the object we seek would speedily be accomplished . a But , then , there is that little word 68 MR . HOWARD'S LECTURE ...
... speak out upon this subject as they should speak , and the community generally would take hold of it in serious earnest , the object we seek would speedily be accomplished . a But , then , there is that little word 68 MR . HOWARD'S LECTURE ...
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... speak out ? how shall the people generally , who are asleep upon this subject , be awakened and aroused to action , and that public opinion be created , which is “ stronger than the power of kings ? " I answer , that this must be done ...
... speak out ? how shall the people generally , who are asleep upon this subject , be awakened and aroused to action , and that public opinion be created , which is “ stronger than the power of kings ? " I answer , that this must be done ...
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Página 172 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 64 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Página 63 - The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder what must have been the amount of that bribe, in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment.
Página 63 - It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less.
Página 10 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Página 5 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Página 85 - And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise ; he calleth thee.
Página 152 - When winds are blowing strong. The traveller slaked His thirst from rill or gushing fount, and thanked The Naiad. Sunbeams, upon distant hills • Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly.
Página 84 - And when he heard that it •> was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
Página 49 - Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors, than in the monarchy which they attack; it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? and what can be done with a people who are their own masters, if they be not submissive to the Deity?