Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 30, Issue 1Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1856 |
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... mind , have become the principal object of desire . It seems almost needless to intimate that the final result of this temper and the practice which ministers to it , must be the stagnation of actual production , and the sudden ...
... mind , have become the principal object of desire . It seems almost needless to intimate that the final result of this temper and the practice which ministers to it , must be the stagnation of actual production , and the sudden ...
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... mind , and seriously endan- gered all convictions of moral right . It has introduced discord and disorder into the political system of every community into which its activity has penetrated ; and has generated revolutions without ...
... mind , and seriously endan- gered all convictions of moral right . It has introduced discord and disorder into the political system of every community into which its activity has penetrated ; and has generated revolutions without ...
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... minds of the observers . An accident , a slight jar , a trivial puncture , may suddenly open an escape for the gas ; and then a universal collapse must ensue . The various partial schemes of correction which are enumera- ted in the ...
... minds of the observers . An accident , a slight jar , a trivial puncture , may suddenly open an escape for the gas ; and then a universal collapse must ensue . The various partial schemes of correction which are enumera- ted in the ...
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... minds , demands , as it were , to be admitted behind the scenes to grasp the conceptions of the master - workman as they come glowing from his brain - and to be flattered with the conciousness , that he is still toiling for them while ...
... minds , demands , as it were , to be admitted behind the scenes to grasp the conceptions of the master - workman as they come glowing from his brain - and to be flattered with the conciousness , that he is still toiling for them while ...
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... minds of this world will be constrained to sit , each in their telegraphic centres , and communicate their thoughts along the wires to the north , south , east and west of their own country , if not of the whole world . Should this to ...
... minds of this world will be constrained to sit , each in their telegraphic centres , and communicate their thoughts along the wires to the north , south , east and west of their own country , if not of the whole world . Should this to ...
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Page 76 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Page 175 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 76 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Page 155 - The public can facilitate this acquisition, by establishing in every parish or district a little school, where children may be taught for a reward so moderate, that even a common labourer may afford it ; the master being partly but not wholly paid by the public ; because, if he was wholly, or even principally paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business.
Page 70 - LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 223 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 10 - Oft did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them at the same time to a farmer ; and neither the nobleman, chimney-sweep, nor farmer had roots in their possession, or wished to possess them.
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