Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
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Page 12
... vice prevented their sons from ever being great enough to be worthy of assassination . To the ravages of all the vices the new re- ligion added its literature of abstraction and credulity . The destruction of Jerusalem had broken up all ...
... vice prevented their sons from ever being great enough to be worthy of assassination . To the ravages of all the vices the new re- ligion added its literature of abstraction and credulity . The destruction of Jerusalem had broken up all ...
Page 60
... Vice conquered at last , but the scholars compelled the evil day to defer its coming . When Cæsar fell he was the leading student , writer and orator of his age . The writings of Homer demonstrate that the Greek state began in a ...
... Vice conquered at last , but the scholars compelled the evil day to defer its coming . When Cæsar fell he was the leading student , writer and orator of his age . The writings of Homer demonstrate that the Greek state began in a ...
Page 65
... vice of a continent will not ask some one distinguished for ignorance and vice to represent them at the local and national elections . If ig- norance and fraud move in bulk so must all the contemporary education and moral- ity move in ...
... vice of a continent will not ask some one distinguished for ignorance and vice to represent them at the local and national elections . If ig- norance and fraud move in bulk so must all the contemporary education and moral- ity move in ...
Page 66
... vice and ignorance there is no hope whatever . An age of intellectual activity is always evolving great principles . When our nation began , slavery was not seen in its true light . The scholars differed as to the moral quality of the ...
... vice and ignorance there is no hope whatever . An age of intellectual activity is always evolving great principles . When our nation began , slavery was not seen in its true light . The scholars differed as to the moral quality of the ...
Page 127
... vice . Men and women who have once tasted of the humane sentiment look back with regret upon the years in which the heart was almost empty of that universal love . When we protect the birds and the brutes we also protect the hearts of ...
... vice . Men and women who have once tasted of the humane sentiment look back with regret upon the years in which the heart was almost empty of that universal love . When we protect the birds and the brutes we also protect the hearts of ...
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