Reflections on the Character and Objects of All Science and Literature, and on the Relative Excellence and Value of Religious and Secular Education, and of Sacred and Classical Literature: In Two Addresses and an Oration with Additions and Improvements |
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... purer morality , more important history , and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence , than could be collected within the same compass , from all other books , that were ever composed , in any age , or in any idiom .
... purer morality , more important history , and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence , than could be collected within the same compass , from all other books , that were ever composed , in any age , or in any idiom .
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Page 24 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
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| Title | Reflections on the Character and Objects of All Science and Literature, and on the Relative Excellence and Value of Religious and Secular Education, and of Sacred and Classical Literature: In Two Addresses and an Oration with Additions and Improvements |
| Author | Thomas Smith Grimké |
| Publisher | H. Howe, 1831 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
| Length | 201 pages |
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