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... cheap and popular form ; - To elevate the character of our national literature , and raise the standard of morality , by the introduction and more general diffusion of works of in- trinsic merit , in Belles Lettres , in Christian morals ...
... cheap and popular form ; - To elevate the character of our national literature , and raise the standard of morality , by the introduction and more general diffusion of works of in- trinsic merit , in Belles Lettres , in Christian morals ...
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... cheap standard books for their parishioners ; the Hospitals , Workhouses , and Prisons ; the Army and Navy , and the Colonies of Great Britain all over the Globe . Through this Society , in 1825 , every soldier in Great Britain was , by ...
... cheap standard books for their parishioners ; the Hospitals , Workhouses , and Prisons ; the Army and Navy , and the Colonies of Great Britain all over the Globe . Through this Society , in 1825 , every soldier in Great Britain was , by ...
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... Committee of General Literature and Education , to take up systematically the work of providing cheap popu- * Principally in the British Colonies . † Annual Report , 1833 . lar publications of an elevated character and moral tendency . 15.
... Committee of General Literature and Education , to take up systematically the work of providing cheap popu- * Principally in the British Colonies . † Annual Report , 1833 . lar publications of an elevated character and moral tendency . 15.
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... cheap popular works of moral tendency to meet the spirit of the times , or in the language of the Archbishop of Armagh , in the last annual sermon before the Society , " to bring the acquisition of knowledge within the guidance and ...
... cheap popular works of moral tendency to meet the spirit of the times , or in the language of the Archbishop of Armagh , in the last annual sermon before the Society , " to bring the acquisition of knowledge within the guidance and ...
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... cheap , popular , and well executed publications , to counteract what is bad , and reform public taste and sentiment . Whatever form or shape the publications are made to assume , I deem it indispensable , that they should all rest on ...
... cheap , popular , and well executed publications , to counteract what is bad , and reform public taste and sentiment . Whatever form or shape the publications are made to assume , I deem it indispensable , that they should all rest on ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abbott academy Alonzo Potter American Society annual subscription approve ARTICLE Arts Association benevolent best civil best interests branch Britain character cheap ciety circular circulation citizens City Philosophical Society classes co-operation commenced Conn Constitution cordial Diffusion of Knowledge doubt effect efforts Eleazer Lord engravings enlightened enterprise established evil Executive Committee exert extent favour foreign francs friends Gorham guineas happy hundred imbued importance improvement increase individuals influence instruction intellectual and moral issued James Brown labours land liberal liberty Library literary literature London mass meeting mind Natural Philosophy New-York object operations P. P. BARBOUR patriot Penny Magazine political population principles Professor Potter promote proposed Prospectus publications published racter receive religion religious Royal SAMUEL F. B. MORSE Schools Secretary spirit of Christianity Statistics success talent Thomas Sewall thousand tion Treatise truth virtue volumes William Betts William Hendricks
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...