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... mankind must live on the wages of la- bor . Now the avails of the labor of an individ- ual can not be much extended beyond a cer- tain sum . In this country , from the favorable circumstances of a fresh soil , a thin population , and ...
... mankind must live on the wages of la- bor . Now the avails of the labor of an individ- ual can not be much extended beyond a cer- tain sum . In this country , from the favorable circumstances of a fresh soil , a thin population , and ...
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... mankind have no limits , of course wealth has no bounds , but the productiveness of nature , and the capacities of human indus- try . And what are human wants ? The first of human wants is food . This can be procured only from the soil ...
... mankind have no limits , of course wealth has no bounds , but the productiveness of nature , and the capacities of human indus- try . And what are human wants ? The first of human wants is food . This can be procured only from the soil ...
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... mankind in the highest state of activity . The highest stimulus to industry is immediate reward . Re- ward to industry can not be immediate unless there is some where a previous accumulation . What the farmer or mechanic most wants is ...
... mankind in the highest state of activity . The highest stimulus to industry is immediate reward . Re- ward to industry can not be immediate unless there is some where a previous accumulation . What the farmer or mechanic most wants is ...
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... mankind , is so much increase of the positive productive capital of a nation . And have the ministers of religion , while they labor for the spiritual good of men , no indirect influence upon national wealth ? Most assuredly they have ...
... mankind , is so much increase of the positive productive capital of a nation . And have the ministers of religion , while they labor for the spiritual good of men , no indirect influence upon national wealth ? Most assuredly they have ...
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... mankind . Poetry has ever been the first step , the enter- ing wedge of all intellectual improvement . It is the first thing , of a gentle and soothing na- ture , which can gain a hearing amid the din of arms and the tumults of the ...
... mankind . Poetry has ever been the first step , the enter- ing wedge of all intellectual improvement . It is the first thing , of a gentle and soothing na- ture , which can gain a hearing amid the din of arms and the tumults of the ...
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Page 119 - I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing...
Page 262 - Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken : and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven : and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Page 310 - If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Page 253 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Page 119 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 301 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 165 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
Page 255 - And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof into brimstone, And the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day ; The smoke thereof shall go up for ever: From generation to generation it shall lie waste ; None shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Page 118 - I profess, sir, in my career, hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Page 119 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.