Moral Aspects of City LifeH. Lyon, 1853 - 191 páginas |
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... living tides of the city . That Finally , I remark that the city , in a special manner , illustrates the fundamental fact that Life itself is moral - is intertwined with spiritual sanc- tions , and is under Providential control . such ...
... living tides of the city . That Finally , I remark that the city , in a special manner , illustrates the fundamental fact that Life itself is moral - is intertwined with spiritual sanc- tions , and is under Providential control . such ...
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... in the toil for gain and the splendor of wealth , they are in danger of confounding the ends of life with the means of living . And in such an age as this , how much is this evil tendency 36 MORAL ASPECTS OF CITY LIFE .
... in the toil for gain and the splendor of wealth , they are in danger of confounding the ends of life with the means of living . And in such an age as this , how much is this evil tendency 36 MORAL ASPECTS OF CITY LIFE .
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... living best who clutches the most . These , however , preserve a claim to consistency at the expense of their reasoning faculties , and occupy the same place in moral , as those philosophers do in physical science , who insist that the ...
... living best who clutches the most . These , however , preserve a claim to consistency at the expense of their reasoning faculties , and occupy the same place in moral , as those philosophers do in physical science , who insist that the ...
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... money , or gain a living , but to achieve the highest moral ends . It has perils , but these you are not to run away from ; you are to en- counter and overcome them . It is filled with ob- 48 MORAL ASPECTS OF CITY LIFE .
... money , or gain a living , but to achieve the highest moral ends . It has perils , but these you are not to run away from ; you are to en- counter and overcome them . It is filled with ob- 48 MORAL ASPECTS OF CITY LIFE .
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... living ; if all that is really of value in it you assimilate to the enduring facul- ties of the soul , then in the rarest , in the only real sense , you will be princes and honorable in the earth . Many of you , it is likely , will here ...
... living ; if all that is really of value in it you assimilate to the enduring facul- ties of the soul , then in the rarest , in the only real sense , you will be princes and honorable in the earth . Many of you , it is likely , will here ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abuse appetite ASPECTS OF CITY awful beauty blood brain breath cern Circle of Amusement commerce condition consciousness consider crowded customs deepest degradation destitution discourse Divine Dominion of Fashion dreadful dwell earth ends eternal evil existence eyes face fact faculties feel forms friends gamester glittering guilt gusset heart heaven HENRY LYON honor human illustrates individual indulgence influence intellect interests labor libertine light living look Lower Depths luxury material ment merely metropolis midst moral significance nature passion perhaps philanthropy physical physical law portunate poverty principle profoundest Pulpit realities refine religion religious sanctions sanctities Science selfish sense shame sinews Social Force social relations society solemn soul speak spected sphere spiritual splendor springs streets surely symbols sympathy temptation thing thought thousands three vices throbs tion toil truth Tyre unconscious unfold word Work-work-work World of Traffic wrong
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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.