Moral Aspects of City LifeH. Lyon, 1853 - 191 páginas |
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... consider the wonders of invention and of art , the trophies of enter- prise , and all the sinews of power , the moral impression is still more striking . Here are the symbols of civilization - the measures of human progress . Here is ...
... consider the wonders of invention and of art , the trophies of enter- prise , and all the sinews of power , the moral impression is still more striking . Here are the symbols of civilization - the measures of human progress . Here is ...
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... considering the evils which cluster in the city , we may say that if it sets the problem of human life in its most ghastly and discouraging shapes , yet here also that problem will be most thoroughly solved . But , in view of the ...
... considering the evils which cluster in the city , we may say that if it sets the problem of human life in its most ghastly and discouraging shapes , yet here also that problem will be most thoroughly solved . But , in view of the ...
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... consider the intelligence displayed in it , the skill which it employs , the mystic compass that guides it on its track ; consider all its instrumentalities , not only material but social , intellectual , moral ; and it does not require ...
... consider the intelligence displayed in it , the skill which it employs , the mystic compass that guides it on its track ; consider all its instrumentalities , not only material but social , intellectual , moral ; and it does not require ...
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... consider a few illustrations of both . And , in the first place , I remark , that in this great department of human activity , there is a tendency to make material interests supreme . In the market , my friends , a man exposes himself ...
... consider a few illustrations of both . And , in the first place , I remark , that in this great department of human activity , there is a tendency to make material interests supreme . In the market , my friends , a man exposes himself ...
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... Consider the unanswered clam- ors for employment , and the faintness of thousands " out of place . " And yet here is a broad land , whose virgin acres can banquet a world ; here are prairies unbroken by the ploughshare ; here are hill ...
... Consider the unanswered clam- ors for employment , and the faintness of thousands " out of place . " And yet here is a broad land , whose virgin acres can banquet a world ; here are prairies unbroken by the ploughshare ; here are hill ...
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Moral Aspects of City Life: A Series of Lectures E H (Edwin Hubbell) 1814-1880 Chapin Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 154 - Work, work, work, In the dull December light, And work, work, work, When the weather Is warm and bright, While underneath the eaves The brooding swallows cling, As if to show me their sunny backs, And twit me with the spring.
Página 154 - Work - work work Till the brain begins to swim! Work - work - work Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Seam , and gusset , and band , Band , and gusset , and seam , Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O men with sisters dear! O men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out , But human creatures
Página 155 - Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch— stitch— stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt.
Página 16 - Behold now this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth...
Página 155 - Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet. With the sky above my head. And the grass beneath my feet ; For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel, Before I knew the woes of want And the walk that costs a meal!
Página 133 - That all of good the past hath had Remains to make our own time glad, Our common daily life divine, And every land a Palestine.
Página 19 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Página 127 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all liberties. And although all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple. Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Página 9 - Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
Página 9 - Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.