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... regard the sack and plunder of cities as triumphant achievements , the greater the spoil the greater the victory ; when they commit atrocities which they would blush to perpetrate , even on their enemies , if intellectual and moral ...
... regard the sack and plunder of cities as triumphant achievements , the greater the spoil the greater the victory ; when they commit atrocities which they would blush to perpetrate , even on their enemies , if intellectual and moral ...
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... regard them as imposing but useless shams . The great object of society should be to make veracity habitual to man ; which can only be effected by a judicious and general system of education , by showing him the social and political ...
... regard them as imposing but useless shams . The great object of society should be to make veracity habitual to man ; which can only be effected by a judicious and general system of education , by showing him the social and political ...
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... regards the character of the individual , and the welfare of that society of which he is a member . In the first place , swearing and coarse language are repellant in their nature , causing persons of cultivated minds and morals to ...
... regards the character of the individual , and the welfare of that society of which he is a member . In the first place , swearing and coarse language are repellant in their nature , causing persons of cultivated minds and morals to ...
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... regard- ing every stranger as an enemy to be destroyed , reckless of their own lives , and having no respect for the lives of others . And it would appear that the only means of subduing such ferocious natures , are such as will afford ...
... regard- ing every stranger as an enemy to be destroyed , reckless of their own lives , and having no respect for the lives of others . And it would appear that the only means of subduing such ferocious natures , are such as will afford ...
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... regard also the follies and extravagances of fashion in her various forms ; in her grand and pompous equipages ; her retinue of useless servants ; her costly pleasures of the table ; her expensive amusements ; and too often in her low ...
... regard also the follies and extravagances of fashion in her various forms ; in her grand and pompous equipages ; her retinue of useless servants ; her costly pleasures of the table ; her expensive amusements ; and too often in her low ...
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afford amusements Anglo-Saxon asso become body called cause character Charles Kingsley civilization comfort conduct corrupt court crime criminal cultivated demnation DIRECT TAXES domestic drink effect enjoyment evil feelings friends gentleman George Eliot give habit happiness heart human ignorant INDIVIDUAL DUTIES industry influence injurious intellectual and moral interest Jeremy Bentham JOHN STUART MILL justice justly knowledge labour laws legislators live man's manhood marriage matter Matthew Arnold means means of happiness ment mind moral duties moral nature nations necessary neglect never parents passions peace persons physical pleasure Plutarch Polonius possess present principles produce promote propensities proper purpose reason regard render respect rulers scrofula seek selfish sense Shakespeare society Spanish proverb spect thing thought thrift tion true truth vice vitality waste welfare WILLIAM LOVETT wise young
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Page 124 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 222 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 156 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 232 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Page 41 - Laertes' head. And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Page 103 - Humboldt, so eminent both as a savant and as a politician, made the text of a treatise— that "the end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal or immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole...
Page 184 - Thus saith the Lord of hosts : There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Page 119 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 74 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 78 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.