There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard for ancestry, which nourishes only a weak pride; as there is also a care for posterity, which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also... Speeches and Forensic Argumentspor Daniel Webster - 1835Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
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...GEORGE L. DAVIS, COMPILER AND PUBLISHER, 1884PRESS OF CHARLES HAMILTON, WORCESTER, MASS. "THERE IS A MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL RESPECT FOR OUR ANCESTORS, WHICH ELEVATES THE CHARACTER AND IMPROVES THE HKART." — Daniel Webster. EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE collecting of the materials of this volume began... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1886 - 246 páginas
...at last, with the consummation of all things earthly at the throne of God. ANCESTRY, REGARD FOR. — There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard...habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates... | |
| Thomas Barlow Smith - 1889 - 164 páginas
...holiness and paternal affection. It took a later generation of Chippewayans to display that care for their posterity which only disguises an habitual avarice^ or hides the workings of a low and grovelling nature. During neither of the stays that the Godfreys made at Halifax had society reached... | |
| John Bigelow Loveland, George Loveland - 1892 - 318 páginas
...felt any interest in his ancestors or made any efforts to rescue their history from oblivion. There is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors...which elevates the character and improves the heart. The pride of ancestry is the foundation of the pride of character, without which no man can be great."... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...Philosophy does not regtrd pedigree ; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so. — Seneca. There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard for ancestry which nourishes only a weak pndc ; as there is also a care for posterity, which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the... | |
| Edward Warren Day - 1895 - 524 páginas
...HUBBARD of Geneva, NY (Descended from Wi:ila:n II:dliurd nf Dorehester and Northampton. Mass ) There is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors...which elevates the character and Improves the heart— Daniel Wthtttr. WILLIAM HULBERD (Hulhard Hulhert, Hulhurt. Hulhurd. etc.), came from England (Northnmherland... | |
| W. Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms - 1896 - 482 páginas
...histories have been recently placed upon the shelves. AC BATES, Secy, NOTES AND QUERIES. "There is a Moral and Philosophical respect for our Ancestors...which elevates the character and improves the heart." — Wtbster. Those having queries they desire to have answered are advised to send them to us; it may... | |
| W. Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms - 1896 - 438 páginas
...histories have been recently placed upon the shelves. A. <'. BATES, «-SVn-. NOTES AND QUERIES. "There is a Moral and Philosophical respect for our Ancestors...elevates the character and improves the heart."— Webster. Those having queries they desire to have answered are advised to send them to us; it may be... | |
| 1898 - 20 páginas
...sincere thanks. "There may be, and there often is, a regard for ancestry which nourishes a weak pride, but there is also a moral and philosophical respect...which elevates the character and improves the heart." — Daniel Webster. Many families of Averys and A very descendants have expressed surprise and regret... | |
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