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... will maintain your eleva- tion . " As he uttered these last words in a tone , which one must have heard , in order to form any conception of its provokingness , a stone , sent from no unskilful 2 [ Jan. Conversations with a Radical .
... will maintain your eleva- tion . " As he uttered these last words in a tone , which one must have heard , in order to form any conception of its provokingness , a stone , sent from no unskilful 2 [ Jan. Conversations with a Radical .
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... C. You have evidently received a superior educa- tion , and yet I find you the very incarnation of Rad- icalism . This to me is a mystery . R. Why so ? Is there any necessary incongruity between 12 [ Jan. Conversations with a Radical .
... C. You have evidently received a superior educa- tion , and yet I find you the very incarnation of Rad- icalism . This to me is a mystery . R. Why so ? Is there any necessary incongruity between 12 [ Jan. Conversations with a Radical .
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... tion . Such men always look for in colleges , and there- fore never look to colleges for Reformers , for new ideas , or for encouragement to labor in the cause of mankind . New ideas are placed in the world by those whom the world knows ...
... tion . Such men always look for in colleges , and there- fore never look to colleges for Reformers , for new ideas , or for encouragement to labor in the cause of mankind . New ideas are placed in the world by those whom the world knows ...
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... tion , and their character presented in its best light , is it reasonable to ask them to commit the education of their children to the care of men , who have full faith in the practicability of removing all social evils , and who would ...
... tion , and their character presented in its best light , is it reasonable to ask them to commit the education of their children to the care of men , who have full faith in the practicability of removing all social evils , and who would ...
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... tion , and this low price he has to pay for whatever he consumes ? The laboring classes are in a condition 4 VOL . IV . NO . I. almost immeasurably above that in which they were at the 1841. ] 25 Conversations with a Radical .
... tion , and this low price he has to pay for whatever he consumes ? The laboring classes are in a condition 4 VOL . IV . NO . I. almost immeasurably above that in which they were at the 1841. ] 25 Conversations with a Radical .
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Page 179 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, Cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiada, facilis descensus Averno ; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 427 - tis rough and narrow, And winds with short turns down the precipice. And in its depth there is a mighty rock, Which has, from unimaginable years, Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down...
Page 78 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 392 - My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you...
Page 151 - Remove far from me vanity and lies : give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me : lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord 1 or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 428 - Hark ! the rushing snow ! The sun-awakened avalanche ! whose mass, Thrice sifted by the storm, had gathered there Flake after flake, — in heaven-defying minds As thought by thought is piled, till some great truth Is loosened, and the nations echo round, Shaken to their roots, as do the mountains now.
Page 438 - There is no other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved, but the name of Jesus.
Page 226 - Naught doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves, thin dancers upon air, Go eddying round ; and small birds, how they fare, When mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch'd from the careless Amalthea's horn...
Page 381 - I exempt, however, from these remarks, the distribution among the States of the proceeds of the public lands, and their application to pay the debts of the States, should the States choose so to apply the money.
Page 426 - SPIRITS The pale stars are gone! For the sun, their swift shepherd, To their folds them compelling, In the depths of the dawn, Hastes, in meteor-eclipsing array, and they flee Beyond his blue dwelling, As fawns flee the leopard.