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... improved state of opinion in some quarters , there is still much public impiety with regard to this inestimable blessing ; impiety which pollutes our seats of learning , and profanes our high places of authority . Our educated youth are ...
... improved state of opinion in some quarters , there is still much public impiety with regard to this inestimable blessing ; impiety which pollutes our seats of learning , and profanes our high places of authority . Our educated youth are ...
Page 36
... improvement ; a land where no natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man ; and what is not yet done , is only what he has not yet attempted to do . " It is the mind of a whole nation teeming with purposes for advancement in ...
... improvement ; a land where no natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man ; and what is not yet done , is only what he has not yet attempted to do . " It is the mind of a whole nation teeming with purposes for advancement in ...
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... improvement and happiness of our race , it may well be expected that whatever is essential to its establishment should be revealed in a volume which " has the promise of the life that now is , and of that which is to come . " The ...
... improvement and happiness of our race , it may well be expected that whatever is essential to its establishment should be revealed in a volume which " has the promise of the life that now is , and of that which is to come . " The ...
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... improved to cherish the mutual kindness and respect which befit the high work they are called unitedly to fulfil . They should view it as their mission , not to kindle the torch of war , but to act as conservators of peace ; and if they ...
... improved to cherish the mutual kindness and respect which befit the high work they are called unitedly to fulfil . They should view it as their mission , not to kindle the torch of war , but to act as conservators of peace ; and if they ...
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... improvement in mind and manners , the Most High not only ordained for them a system of intellectual training , which we will hereafter consider , but he also gave them laws like the following : - " If a bird's nest chance to be before ...
... improvement in mind and manners , the Most High not only ordained for them a system of intellectual training , which we will hereafter consider , but he also gave them laws like the following : - " If a bird's nest chance to be before ...
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