Hints Toward Reforms: In Lectures, Addresses, and Other WritingsHarper & brothers, 1850 - 400 |
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Strona 101 - What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Strona 107 - Our culture therefore must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace...
Strona 300 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Strona 1 - Hasten the day, just Heaven ; Accomplish thy design ; And let the blessings thou hast freely given Freely on all men shine ; Till equal rights be equally enjoyed, And human power for human good employed ; Till law, not man, the sovereign rule sustain, And Peace and Virtue undisputed reign.
Strona 235 - the amount of six to eight million pieces of cotton goods. The demand gradually fell, and has now ceased altogether. European 'skill and machinery have superseded the produce of India. Cotton piece-goods, for ages the staple manufacture of India, seem forever lost ; and the present suffering to numerous classes in India is scarcely to be paralleled in the history of commerce...
Strona 231 - I behold most cheering indications of the near approach of that day, when all shall know the Lord, from the least unto the greatest.
Strona 219 - Israel to rouse the people out of their selfcomplacency, to refresh their moral ideals, to remind them that the life is more than meat, and the body more than raiment, and that to whom much is given of them shall much also be required.
Strona 1 - Aid the dawning tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid it, paper — aid it type, — Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken Into play; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way!
Strona 107 - More freedom exists for culture. It will not now run against an axe at the first step out of the beaten track of opinion. But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.