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- The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by…
- In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men…
- The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of…
- I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to…
- The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
- By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.
- By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart that ever has…
- It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in…
- Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils…
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