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They would resent the application of an argument , founded on mere
considerations of morality , as irrelevant to what they view as a question of
national policy . Of nothing are men more jealous than of being made even to feel
against their will ...
They would resent the application of an argument , founded on mere
considerations of morality , as irrelevant to what they view as a question of
national policy . Of nothing are men more jealous than of being made even to feel
against their will ...
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the civil government , is , not less than the duties connected with other social
relations , a moral duty , antecedent to the publication of the Gospel ; the grounds
of this obedience are not therefore to be sought for in Christianity , but in reason .
the civil government , is , not less than the duties connected with other social
relations , a moral duty , antecedent to the publication of the Gospel ; the grounds
of this obedience are not therefore to be sought for in Christianity , but in reason .
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Finally , let every means , preventive , and remedial , of improving the moral
condition , and raising the character of the lower classes , be perseveringly
applied ; let every moral and political expedient be adopted , that may endear to
them their ...
Finally , let every means , preventive , and remedial , of improving the moral
condition , and raising the character of the lower classes , be perseveringly
applied ; let every moral and political expedient be adopted , that may endear to
them their ...
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... thousand men on board of her ; it is morally impossible ! Where are the latter to
get food and water ? The King has scarcely so many guns in his tope khanu , or
arsenal ; and the crews of two such ships would overrun the whole of my country
...
... thousand men on board of her ; it is morally impossible ! Where are the latter to
get food and water ? The King has scarcely so many guns in his tope khanu , or
arsenal ; and the crews of two such ships would overrun the whole of my country
...
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Bonaparte was a bold , bad man ; a man divested of all moral principle , and all
sense of religious obligation . The circumstances which prepared the way for his
extraordinary elevation , were of the most demoralizing tendency . In times of ...
Bonaparte was a bold , bad man ; a man divested of all moral principle , and all
sense of religious obligation . The circumstances which prepared the way for his
extraordinary elevation , were of the most demoralizing tendency . In times of ...
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Page 90 - For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead...
Page 20 - They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun; but things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, and our good Prince Eugene. "Why, 'twas a very wicked thing!" said little Wilhelmine. "Nay... nay... my little girl," quoth he, "it was a famous victory.
Page 293 - Clear, placid Leman ! thy contrasted lake," With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Page 290 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! Ada ! sole daughter of my house and heart ? When last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, * But with a hope.
Page 292 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 293 - He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill ; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 230 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet,' saying, I will open my mouth in parables ; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 297 - I found him not. 7 only stirred in this black spot; / only lived — / only drew The accursed breath of dungeon-dew; The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 479 - And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Page 604 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.