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... experience or knowl edge , never tell a falsehood to conceal it ; but come bravely up , and tell me of it ; and your confession will merit love instead of punishment . " As we proceed with this narrative , after having enjoyed this ...
... experience or knowl edge , never tell a falsehood to conceal it ; but come bravely up , and tell me of it ; and your confession will merit love instead of punishment . " As we proceed with this narrative , after having enjoyed this ...
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... experienced the sensation of loneliness . However , he had caught the military spirit , and he found relief in playing soldier with his companions . There is no doubt that George inherited somewhat the love and tact for military life ...
... experienced the sensation of loneliness . However , he had caught the military spirit , and he found relief in playing soldier with his companions . There is no doubt that George inherited somewhat the love and tact for military life ...
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... experience for two years has fitted me for that service more than for any other , and that is to be thought of , " suggested Lawrence . " Yes ; but other avenues to business are always open to young men of spirit , " remarked his father ...
... experience for two years has fitted me for that service more than for any other , and that is to be thought of , " suggested Lawrence . " Yes ; but other avenues to business are always open to young men of spirit , " remarked his father ...
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... experience in war . Lawrence was twenty - four years of age , and George but ten , so that the latter looked up to the former somewhat as a son looks up to a father , drink ing in his words as words of wisdom , and accepting his experience ...
... experience in war . Lawrence was twenty - four years of age , and George but ten , so that the latter looked up to the former somewhat as a son looks up to a father , drink ing in his words as words of wisdom , and accepting his experience ...
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... experience , that solace and support were found in divine grace , so that this sudden and terrible affliction did not overtake them unawares , really . They were prepared for it in an important sense . The doctor called just as this ...
... experience , that solace and support were found in divine grace , so that this sudden and terrible affliction did not overtake them unawares , really . They were prepared for it in an important sense . The doctor called just as this ...
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Page 483 - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country...
Page 488 - IN the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others should be excluded ; and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave.
Page 492 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ^ so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. (I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.) I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend...
Page 325 - PLEAD my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me : fight against them that fight against me.
Page 474 - In the discharge of this trust, I will only say, that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable. Not unconscious, in the outset, of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself...
Page 488 - OBSERVE good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all ; religion and morality enjoin, this conduct ; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 487 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 481 - To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute. They must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate union and for the efficacious management of...
Page 480 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations — northern and southern — Atlantic and western ; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 482 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control; counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.