Christian Civilization: An Address Delivered Before the Athenian Society of the University of Ohio at Athens, September Sixteenth, 1840A. Pugh, Print., 1840 - 26 páginas |
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... knowledge so much as to rouse thought ; the views to which I have been led may be very mistaken , and yet by the statement of them I may cause your minds to enter upon a course of inquiry which will bring you to the truth . There have ...
... knowledge so much as to rouse thought ; the views to which I have been led may be very mistaken , and yet by the statement of them I may cause your minds to enter upon a course of inquiry which will bring you to the truth . There have ...
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... Knowledge does not raise the mass one atom ; it enables the Priest to rear his vast temples , or to play the juggler ; the monarch to pamper his appetites , his vanity , or to destroy with quick poison his son or brother . Such ...
... Knowledge does not raise the mass one atom ; it enables the Priest to rear his vast temples , or to play the juggler ; the monarch to pamper his appetites , his vanity , or to destroy with quick poison his son or brother . Such ...
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... knowledge ; to have an opinion on a subject of which we know nothing is evidently absurd . But our knowledge is derived as much , nay , more from the evidence of others , than from our own observations . We have not seen the whole earth ...
... knowledge ; to have an opinion on a subject of which we know nothing is evidently absurd . But our knowledge is derived as much , nay , more from the evidence of others , than from our own observations . We have not seen the whole earth ...
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... knowledge I have on the subject . And should some one who has lived much longer , and seen far more of the world than I have , assure me that any moral views presented to me are unwise or injurious , good sense would oblige me to ...
... knowledge I have on the subject . And should some one who has lived much longer , and seen far more of the world than I have , assure me that any moral views presented to me are unwise or injurious , good sense would oblige me to ...
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... knowledge of , art spread abrod Even natural beauty is neglected by us . When a man builds a house here , does he think of any true principles of architecture , or only of con- venience and his own wild whims ? In our domestic buildings ...
... knowledge of , art spread abrod Even natural beauty is neglected by us . When a man builds a house here , does he think of any true principles of architecture , or only of con- venience and his own wild whims ? In our domestic buildings ...
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Página 26 - Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Página 23 - True, he never did, but it was because he knew so well that if we but sought " the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all these things should be added unto us.
Página 26 - With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, iearn to labor, and to wait.