Do They Really Respect Us? and Other Essays

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A. M. Robertson, 1911 - 273 pages
 

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Page 206 - Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account: which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Page 39 - I will go to prison if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots, and the thousand-fold Relief Societies; though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.
Page 111 - Mock you !" repeated he earnestly ; " no ! I revere you ! I esteem and I admire you above all human beings ! you are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half! you are the most amiable, the most perfect of women ! and you are dearer to me than language has the power of telling.
Page 263 - From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
Page 263 - They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity descending from them by ordinary generation.
Page 184 - ... that any amount of public clamor will induce the Young Woman to vacate her desk or resign her ledger so long as it suits her employer and herself for her to retain them. She is not generally in her place from any higher moral impulse than that which actuates the Young Man in his ; necessity, or the native energy which, in the agricultural epoch of her great grandmother, found an outlet in spinning, weaving and butter making, and which refuses to be shut up in six rooms with an able-bodied mother...
Page 151 - Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do right because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. "A Matter of Conscience,
Page 263 - Chap. vi. communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly denied in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.
Page 181 - ... abroad has a sad smile, it is either HIS SAD because he is abroad or because he is rich, for however deeply SMILE. care and worry may etch their lines on the face of the American business man, the American worker, if he be blessed with poverty enough to keep him at work eight hours a day, and with wealth enough to keep him from worry the remaining sixteen, is a light-hearted and jocular sort of person. His wit and humor flash and bubble on streetcars, in shops, and on railway platforms, and his...
Page 177 - See what a fine, sturdy, and altogether creditable sort of person I am by reason of a long line of hardy pioneer ancestry ! " Strangely enough, one of our favorite nineteenth century ways of proving our worth is to go about trying to divest other people of every remnant of self respect acquired or inherited. Our New England originators fought a stubborn soil, a bitter climate, famine, sickness, Indians, and religious persecution, and out of the turmoil and hardship and conscientious narrowness of...

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