Self Culture, Volume 2Werner Company, 1895 |
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Page 411
... plant the tree so will it grow . Though thou mayest suffer for thy righteous acts , Ne'er give thy mind to aught but honest gain . Contentment , patience under injury , Self - subjugation , honesty , restraint Of all the sensual organs ...
... plant the tree so will it grow . Though thou mayest suffer for thy righteous acts , Ne'er give thy mind to aught but honest gain . Contentment , patience under injury , Self - subjugation , honesty , restraint Of all the sensual organs ...
Page 419
... plant . This plant gave a liquor , the intoxicating effect of which was sup- posed to be divine inspiration . Such use of an intoxicant and such conception of inspiration go back in all probability to one of the earliest stages of ...
... plant . This plant gave a liquor , the intoxicating effect of which was sup- posed to be divine inspiration . Such use of an intoxicant and such conception of inspiration go back in all probability to one of the earliest stages of ...
Page 432
... plants under contracts for a supply of power . One is the Pittsburg Reduction Company , manufacturers of alum- inium , requiring 2,000 - horse power . The other is the Carborundum Company , manufacturers of carborundum , a variety of ...
... plants under contracts for a supply of power . One is the Pittsburg Reduction Company , manufacturers of alum- inium , requiring 2,000 - horse power . The other is the Carborundum Company , manufacturers of carborundum , a variety of ...
Page 436
... plant world ; everything vege- table , not less than the animal world . But the greatest difficulties in physiology are met with in connection with the attempts which are made to explain what vital energy is and what are its Here the ...
... plant world ; everything vege- table , not less than the animal world . But the greatest difficulties in physiology are met with in connection with the attempts which are made to explain what vital energy is and what are its Here the ...
Page 452
... plants , wild animals and slaves . In fact , wherever there was any- thing to buy or to be sold , there the Phoenician merchants were . Every arti- cle of exchange , every species of com- modity , was sought out by them and a market ...
... plants , wild animals and slaves . In fact , wherever there was any- thing to buy or to be sold , there the Phoenician merchants were . Every arti- cle of exchange , every species of com- modity , was sought out by them and a market ...
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Page 623 - I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
Page 562 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 565 - ... knowledge in the principles of politics and good government, and, as a matter of infinite importance in my judgment, by associating with each other, and forming friendships in juvenile years, be enabled to free themselves in a proper degree from, those local prejudices and habitual jealousies which have just been mentioned, and which, when carried to excess, are never-failing sources of disquietude to the public mind, and pregnant of mischievous consequences to this country.
Page 879 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea : and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Page 880 - Woe unto them that join house to house, That lay field to field, till there be no place, That they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Page 879 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Page 680 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 434 - The second * day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to' be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 913 - All this may be ; the people's voice is odd ; It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
Page 690 - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses ; neither after him arose there any like him.