Moncure D. Conway: Addresses and Reprints, 1850-1907Houghton Mifflin, 1909 - 444 páginas |
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... Mr. Conway's work , now out of print , and also some of his later discussions and addresses , never published for general circulation . Mr. Conway's life may be roughly divided into four periods INTRODUCTION CONTENTS.
... Mr. Conway's work , now out of print , and also some of his later discussions and addresses , never published for general circulation . Mr. Conway's life may be roughly divided into four periods INTRODUCTION CONTENTS.
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... never posed as a martyr - could not but have a bitter taste . He loved his people , knew their goodness and the wretch- edness of their inheritance of slavery and its attendant ills , and , as for his family , knew that the separation ...
... never posed as a martyr - could not but have a bitter taste . He loved his people , knew their goodness and the wretch- edness of their inheritance of slavery and its attendant ills , and , as for his family , knew that the separation ...
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... never have been endowed with such capacity for improvement as we find in him , nor with such aspira- tions , had he not been created for such designs . The Greeks had the right idea of him , when they called him Anthropos . He alone ...
... never have been endowed with such capacity for improvement as we find in him , nor with such aspira- tions , had he not been created for such designs . The Greeks had the right idea of him , when they called him Anthropos . He alone ...
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... never seen before ; at any rate , their system is far better than ours , which in connec- tion with the best we now proceed to notice . A contrast between Virginia and Massachusetts is pain- ful ; it would be crushing were we not ...
... never seen before ; at any rate , their system is far better than ours , which in connec- tion with the best we now proceed to notice . A contrast between Virginia and Massachusetts is pain- ful ; it would be crushing were we not ...
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... never pen a written line ! What was thought of Education may be best understood from the subjoined question and answer , taken from an antique paper of Inquiries to the Governor of Virginia , submitted by the Lords Commissioners of ...
... never pen a written line ! What was thought of Education may be best understood from the subjoined question and answer , taken from an antique paper of Inquiries to the Governor of Virginia , submitted by the Lords Commissioners of ...
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Página 399 - To support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable, for their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Página 6 - Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken.
Página 6 - What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare the health of the two men and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.
Página 144 - Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ; 9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Página xii - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Página 199 - All things are double, one against another. Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love. Give, and it shall be given you. He that watereth shall be watered himself. What will you have? quoth God. Pay for it and take it.
Página 195 - Christian saw the picture of a very grave person hang up against the wall; and this was the fashion of it: It had eyes lifted up to heaven, the best of books in his hand, the law of truth was written upon his lips, the world was behind his back ; it stood as if it pleaded with men, and a crown of gold did hang over its head.
Página 110 - Hamlet. Do you see yonder cloud, that's almost in the shape of a camel ? Polonius. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed. Hamlet. Methinks, it is like a weasel. Polonius. It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet. Or, like a whale ? Polonius. Very like a whale.
Página 398 - That, therefore, which makes a good Constitution, must keep it, viz., men of wisdom and virtue, qualities that, because they descend not with worldly inheritances, must be carefully propagated by a virtuous education of youth...
Página 24 - Answer.—The same course that is taken in England out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children. We have fforty-eight parishes, and our ministers are well paid and by my consent should be better if they would pray oftener and preach less.