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... happiness promotes our decay and prostration !! What an appalling idea ! Who can re- flect without regret on a system built upon such a wretched foundation ! What a contrast between this system and the one laid down with such ability by ...
... happiness promotes our decay and prostration !! What an appalling idea ! Who can re- flect without regret on a system built upon such a wretched foundation ! What a contrast between this system and the one laid down with such ability by ...
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... happiness ; than which a more noble subject cannot occupy the attention of men endowed with enlarged minds , or inspired by public spirit . It is to be regretted that this sublime science has not had adequate attention bestowed on it in ...
... happiness ; than which a more noble subject cannot occupy the attention of men endowed with enlarged minds , or inspired by public spirit . It is to be regretted that this sublime science has not had adequate attention bestowed on it in ...
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... happiness throughout the wide expanse of our territory . In this arduous undertaking , we request a patient and candid hearing from our fellow - citizens . We fondly hope for success ; but if disappointed , we shall have the conso ...
... happiness throughout the wide expanse of our territory . In this arduous undertaking , we request a patient and candid hearing from our fellow - citizens . We fondly hope for success ; but if disappointed , we shall have the conso ...
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... happiness and prosperity . There are above a million of people , of both sexes and of all ages , employed in that country , in the woollen and cotton manufactures . † By their industry in these branches , they make for themselves and ...
... happiness and prosperity . There are above a million of people , of both sexes and of all ages , employed in that country , in the woollen and cotton manufactures . † By their industry in these branches , they make for themselves and ...
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... happiness is extended so wide as to em- brace the whole community . From this cheering propect , let us turn the startled eye to the masses of misery , which Dr. Smith's system would produce ; and we shall then behold a hideous contrast ...
... happiness is extended so wide as to em- brace the whole community . From this cheering propect , let us turn the startled eye to the masses of misery , which Dr. Smith's system would produce ; and we shall then behold a hideous contrast ...
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Page 262 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 280 - Be wise now therefore, O ye kings : be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
Page 16 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself...
Page 16 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Page 262 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 282 - If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Page 280 - Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children: whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
Page 283 - For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly ; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Page 114 - In such a position of things, the United States cannot exchange with Europe on equal terms; and the want of reciprocity would render them the victim of a system which should induce them to confine their views to agriculture, and refrain from manufactures. A constant and increasing necessity, on their part, for the commodities of Europe, and only a partial and occasional demand for their own, in return, could not but expose them to a state of impoverishment, compared with the opulence to which their...
Page 103 - This mode of reasoning is founded upon facts and principles, which have certainly respectable pretensions. If it had governed the conduct of nations more generally than it has done, there is room to suppose that it might have carried them faster to prosperity and greatness than they have attained by the pursuit of maxims too widely opposite.