The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things, Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History : with an Appendix ...The author, 1848 - 328 sider |
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Side 10
... sometimes enables them to leave in the distance , a man of science , merit , and worth ; but too modest and unassuming for the times . Blustering impudence and foaming brag- gadocia , have performed astonishing feats in our coun- try ...
... sometimes enables them to leave in the distance , a man of science , merit , and worth ; but too modest and unassuming for the times . Blustering impudence and foaming brag- gadocia , have performed astonishing feats in our coun- try ...
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... sometimes property ; are swept away by a whirlwind - perhaps a tornado of anger . I have more than once seen the furniture of a house in a mass of ruin , the work of an angry moment . I have seen anger make wives unhappy , alienate ...
... sometimes property ; are swept away by a whirlwind - perhaps a tornado of anger . I have more than once seen the furniture of a house in a mass of ruin , the work of an angry moment . I have seen anger make wives unhappy , alienate ...
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... sometimes prostrated the energies of a child , but never gives them a healthy vigor . Too much pruning endangers a shrub , more than the shade of a dense forest . Dr. Cotton Mather made it a rule , never to resort to corporeal ...
... sometimes prostrated the energies of a child , but never gives them a healthy vigor . Too much pruning endangers a shrub , more than the shade of a dense forest . Dr. Cotton Mather made it a rule , never to resort to corporeal ...
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... sometimes induced by too severe punishment for faults committed , causing the child to resort to falsehood , to avoid a castigation . Other parents teach it by practising deception on their children , which cannot long be concealed . In ...
... sometimes induced by too severe punishment for faults committed , causing the child to resort to falsehood , to avoid a castigation . Other parents teach it by practising deception on their children , which cannot long be concealed . In ...
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... sometimes , determined on quiet at least , close the farce with a tragedy , and dash their brains out with a blue pill . Discontented persons live in open rebellion against their great Benefactor , and virtually claim wisdom , more than ...
... sometimes , determined on quiet at least , close the farce with a tragedy , and dash their brains out with a blue pill . Discontented persons live in open rebellion against their great Benefactor , and virtually claim wisdom , more than ...
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Side 8 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Side 6 - Rodney, George Read, Thomas M'Kean. Maryland. — Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton. Virginia. — George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. North Carolina. — William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. South Carolina. — Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. Georgia. — Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.