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... attention of individuals in different parts of this country . In the course of the past year , measures were adopted in relation to this subject , of which the public has already been informed . The Institution has been duly organized ...
... attention of individuals in different parts of this country . In the course of the past year , measures were adopted in relation to this subject , of which the public has already been informed . The Institution has been duly organized ...
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... attention , it seems to have been the parent of the great institutions , which have since arisen to wield the press and bless the world . In 1832 the Society appointed a special Committee of General Literature and Education , to take up ...
... attention , it seems to have been the parent of the great institutions , which have since arisen to wield the press and bless the world . In 1832 the Society appointed a special Committee of General Literature and Education , to take up ...
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... attention to all classes of readers . They hoped , by its cheapness , and the interest and real merit of its contents , to supplant those pernicious publications which threatened irreparable evil to the social system . " The experiment ...
... attention to all classes of readers . They hoped , by its cheapness , and the interest and real merit of its contents , to supplant those pernicious publications which threatened irreparable evil to the social system . " The experiment ...
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... attention is paid to books for the young ; and a large number of the volumes are devoted to them . All the books are executed in the most tasteful and serviceable manner , and are an ornament to any parlour . Many of them are not ...
... attention is paid to books for the young ; and a large number of the volumes are devoted to them . All the books are executed in the most tasteful and serviceable manner , and are an ornament to any parlour . Many of them are not ...
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... attention of the Committee was occupied , in extending inform- ation as to the objects of the Society , and promoting the perusal of its pub- lications , by means of correspondence , agencies , auxiliary societies , and reading ...
... attention of the Committee was occupied , in extending inform- ation as to the objects of the Society , and promoting the perusal of its pub- lications , by means of correspondence , agencies , auxiliary societies , and reading ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 7 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Seite 7 - The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice 1 And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
Seite 7 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric...
Seite 7 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Seite 7 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in...