| Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for...duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should hear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of alliance with... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 524 pages
...which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for...improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty arid moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 pages
...which only •'disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for...moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with strong- er obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of alliance with excellence... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 pages
...which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for...to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, 1 hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness... | |
| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for...which elevates the character and improves the heart. SltlJJ^t, — Shakspeare. r. _ Shakspeare. FRET, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your Slaves... | |
| Literature - 1857 - 528 pages
...are told that the chief office of history is to rescue virtuous actions from oblivion ; that there is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors,...which elevates the character and improves the heart. What has Virginia done to rescue the virtuous actions of her eminent men from ohlivion? Jamestown cries... | |
| John Adams Vinton - Massachusetts - 1858 - 592 pages
...the fact — that his ancestors vvece brave and upright men. We believe with Webster, that " there ia a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors,...which elevates the character, and improves the heart." Burke truly said, " Those only deserve to be remembered by posterity, who treasure up the history of... | |
| John Adams Vinton - 1858 - 596 pages
...the fact — that his ancestors were brave and upright men. We believe with Webster, that " there is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors,...which elevates the character, and improves the heart." Burke truly said, "Those only deserve to be remembered by posterity, who treasure up the history of... | |
| John Adams Vinton - 1874 - 598 pages
...in ancestry and the love of it, and is natural and good." — Westminster Reciew, July, 1853. fore and after, to hold communion at once with our ancestors...which elevates the character and improves the heart." " Those who are regardless of their ancestors, do not perform their duty to the world." The hand of... | |
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