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The sources of happiness open to each are adapted to their respective natures :
and pursuing those tastes implanted by infinite wisdom and benevolence , they
carry out the ends for which they were created . Happiness is a legitimate object ...
The sources of happiness open to each are adapted to their respective natures :
and pursuing those tastes implanted by infinite wisdom and benevolence , they
carry out the ends for which they were created . Happiness is a legitimate object ...
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Beautiful in its conception , it conducts the soul toward the source of the high and
heavenly ; purifies the spirit even in the days of its dwelling in tabernacles , and
brings it into conpanionship with those who study the nature of truth and worship
...
Beautiful in its conception , it conducts the soul toward the source of the high and
heavenly ; purifies the spirit even in the days of its dwelling in tabernacles , and
brings it into conpanionship with those who study the nature of truth and worship
...
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... the rising city , the deserted cabin , the wonders of nature and of art that are
scattered all along its banks , till at last he floated out with the stream into the gulf
that received him as eternity swallows time . The canvass on which this
panorama ...
... the rising city , the deserted cabin , the wonders of nature and of art that are
scattered all along its banks , till at last he floated out with the stream into the gulf
that received him as eternity swallows time . The canvass on which this
panorama ...
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But the abuse of the faculties of our nature must not forbid their use . We must
discriminate wisely , and gather the good into our shelves and cast the bad away
. Let us condemn as they deserve to be condemned , those works , however ...
But the abuse of the faculties of our nature must not forbid their use . We must
discriminate wisely , and gather the good into our shelves and cast the bad away
. Let us condemn as they deserve to be condemned , those works , however ...
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There is truth in both of them , and the truth to nature in each is what reveals the
right of each to be the prince in his own dominions . If the poet forsakes truth and
lets fancy on free wing bear him into the regions of the false and improbable , his
...
There is truth in both of them , and the truth to nature in each is what reveals the
right of each to be the prince in his own dominions . If the poet forsakes truth and
lets fancy on free wing bear him into the regions of the false and improbable , his
...
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Page 40 - ... not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved ; but it shall be lawful, on any other day, to hold and make an election of directors in such manner as shall have been regulated by the laws and ordinances of the said corporation.
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| Title | An Address delivered at the opening of the Hall of the Newark Library Association, etc |
| Author | Samuel Irenĉus Prime |
| Publisher | Daily advertiser office, 1848 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Oct 2006 |
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