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Book of the Lockes: A Genealogical and Historical Record of the Descendants ... - Page 4
by John Goodwin Locke - 1853 - 406 pages
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1

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...
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1

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...
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The Statesmen of America in 1846

Sarah Mytton (Hughes) Maury ("Mrs. William Maury, "), Sarah Mytton Maury - Statesmen - 1847 - 282 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 our ancestors which ele-. vates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling,...
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The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

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...
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Webster and His Master-pieces, Volume 2

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...
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Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection ...

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...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 25

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...
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The Vinton Memorial: Comprising a Genealogy of the Descendants of John ...

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...
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The Vinton Memorial, Comprising a Genealogy of the Descendants of John ...

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...
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The Upton Memorial: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of John Upton ...

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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