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
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 páginas
...future, and terminating at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God. 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... | |
| Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 páginas
...future, and terminating at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God. other occurrences, were making way for a new class...landholders and the retainers of the crown, on the o grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 páginas
...present, and the future, and terminating at last with the consummation of all things at the throne of God. grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...present, and the future, and terminating at last with the consummation of all things at the throne of God. ere the objects of his undivided care. It is not for...fiict, that the same Being whose eye is abroad over the wnrking« of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our... | |
| Bicknell Family Association - 1880 - 222 páginas
...chances as these were have been already taken. A great statesman of this country once said that "there is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors...which elevates the character and improves the heart." The Bicknell family to-day recognize this truth, and their outside friends gladly unite with them in... | |
| Charles Elihu Slocum - 1882 - 716 páginas
...connected with their ancestors on these pages for want of proper reports. See Appendix. " There is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors...which elevates the character and improves the heart." "Any labor that adds to our knowledge of the descent of a family or gathers the scattered facts of... | |
| Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1882 - 490 páginas
...pre-natal alone. Daniel Webster says with truth • " There is a singular disregard of ancestry. There is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors...which elevates the character and improves the heart. I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness... | |
| George Lucien Davis - 1884 - 636 páginas
...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... | |
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