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Page 32
... wealth of the world ; no seminaries of learning teeming with a growth of intellect that rendered the divines , the physicians , the lawyers , the statesmen , the philosophers of Hol- land , the oracles of their day throughout the ...
... wealth of the world ; no seminaries of learning teeming with a growth of intellect that rendered the divines , the physicians , the lawyers , the statesmen , the philosophers of Hol- land , the oracles of their day throughout the ...
Page 44
... wealth , is demoralizing . It blunts every sensibility to that which is right and com- mendable , and opens a door to temptation in its worst forms . " I , wisdom , dwell with prudence ; " and no prize , however splendid in appearance ...
... wealth , is demoralizing . It blunts every sensibility to that which is right and com- mendable , and opens a door to temptation in its worst forms . " I , wisdom , dwell with prudence ; " and no prize , however splendid in appearance ...
Page 46
... wealth . " To no nation , not even to Israel , prosperous as they were , could this admonition be more applicable than to ourselves as a people . Our prosperity has outstripped the predictions 46 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ..
... wealth . " To no nation , not even to Israel , prosperous as they were , could this admonition be more applicable than to ourselves as a people . Our prosperity has outstripped the predictions 46 INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ..
Page 78
... wealth . Under the Hebrew Constitution , the candidate for office might be rich or poor , descended from an ancestry either known or unknown ; if he was an " able man , loving truth , and hating covetousness , and known among the 78 ...
... wealth . Under the Hebrew Constitution , the candidate for office might be rich or poor , descended from an ancestry either known or unknown ; if he was an " able man , loving truth , and hating covetousness , and known among the 78 ...
Page 83
... absolute necessaries of life , inasmuch as a share in the produce of both the “ vineyard ” and 66 " field " must be allowed to them ; and that , as po- verty has its feelings of delicacy as well as wealth SECOND LECTURE . 883.
... absolute necessaries of life , inasmuch as a share in the produce of both the “ vineyard ” and 66 " field " must be allowed to them ; and that , as po- verty has its feelings of delicacy as well as wealth SECOND LECTURE . 883.
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