Moral Aspects of City LifeH. Lyon, 1853 - 191 páginas |
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... seeking to do this , I have used that language which I deemed most effective , and without any refined elaboration have sent it to type very much as it fell from my lips . I trust , however , be the faults of this book what they may ...
... seeking to do this , I have used that language which I deemed most effective , and without any refined elaboration have sent it to type very much as it fell from my lips . I trust , however , be the faults of this book what they may ...
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... seeking for wealth , pleasure , fame , called a " pursuit , " for it is always an object ahead , always something to be attained . It never imparts the satisfaction of a complete end . It shows that the worker exists for a purpose ...
... seeking for wealth , pleasure , fame , called a " pursuit , " for it is always an object ahead , always something to be attained . It never imparts the satisfaction of a complete end . It shows that the worker exists for a purpose ...
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... seek , and the results of their getting , freshens in us the moral conviction that this life is not only transitory ... seeking yet never attaining , grasping only to find their possessions inadequate and their thirst still increased for ...
... seek , and the results of their getting , freshens in us the moral conviction that this life is not only transitory ... seeking yet never attaining , grasping only to find their possessions inadequate and their thirst still increased for ...
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... seek it yet again . " PROVERBS XXIII . 35 . No survey of the Moral Aspects of City Life , however general , will permit us to overlook those grosser forms of evil by which so many of its thousands are tempted and overcome . These , in ...
... seek it yet again . " PROVERBS XXIII . 35 . No survey of the Moral Aspects of City Life , however general , will permit us to overlook those grosser forms of evil by which so many of its thousands are tempted and overcome . These , in ...
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... seek it yet again . " Especially , then , we cannot pass by the regions of vice , if we would dwell upon the moral lessons of the city , any more than we can fail to see , with our outward eyes , its symbols and opportunities all around ...
... seek it yet again . " Especially , then , we cannot pass by the regions of vice , if we would dwell upon the moral lessons of the city , any more than we can fail to see , with our outward eyes , its symbols and opportunities all around ...
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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
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.