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" ... needful to be breathed. There is nothing of such mighty power among us, no machinery that will exert a more inevitable influence either to bless or to destroy. The influence of our newspapers upon our higher literature is deplorable; but this would... "
The Elements of National Greatness: An Address Before the New England ... - Page 38
by George Barrell Cheever - 1843 - 40 pages
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Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1

Friedrich von Schlegel - 1818 - 370 pages
...g4 HISTORY OF an abyss of democratical lawlessness, was at last entirely overthrown: and sophistry had the merit of creating a spirit of corruption and...nor bloody revolutions, had been able to produce. In the midst of this universal atheism Socrates arose, and taught again the existence of a God in a...
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Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1

Friedrich von Schlegel - 1818 - 362 pages
...on the brink of an abyss of democratical lawlessness, was at last entirely overthrown: and sophistry had the merit of creating a spirit of corruption and debasement, which neither party-btrife nor protracted wars, nor foreign bribery, nor bloody revolutions, had been able to produce....
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The Catholic miscellany and monthly repository of information, Volume 8

1827 - 464 pages
...the brink of an abyss of democratical lawlessness, was at last entirely overthrown : and sophistry had the merit of creating a spirit of corruption and...nor bloody revolutions, had been able to produce. " In the midst of this universal atheism,+ Socrates arose, and tanght again the existence of a God...
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Lectures on the History of Literature: Ancient and Modern

Friedrich von Schlegel - 1846 - 440 pages
...entirely overthrown : and sophistry had the merit of creating a spirit of corruption and debaseifrent which neither party-strife, nor protracted wars, nor...nor bloody revolutions, had been able to produce. In the midst of this universal atheism Socrates arose, and taught again the existence of a God in a...
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The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Volume 8

1854 - 664 pages
...on the brink of an abyss of democratic lawlessness, was at last entirely overthrown; and sophistry had the merit of creating a spirit of corruption and debasement, which neither party strife, nor protracted wars, nor foreign bribery, nor bloody revolutions, had been able to produce."*...
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The New England Society Orations: Addresses, Sermons ..., Volume 1; Volume 69

Cephas Brainerd, Eveline Warner Brainerd - 1901 - 492 pages
...higher literature is deplorable; but this would be nothing if the public utterances of our newspapers were utterances of truth. They are becoming a school...newspaper press in this country. Nor can we speak the painfulness of our emotions, when we. see these daily schools of thousands of our people under the...
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The New England Society Orations: Addresses, Sermons, and Poems ..., Volume 1

Cephas Brainerd, Eveline Warner Brainerd - 1901 - 494 pages
...higher literature is deplorable; but this would be nothing if the public utterances of our newspapers were utterances of truth. They are becoming a school...newspaper press in this country. Nor can we speak the painfulness of our emotions, when we see these daily schools of thousands of our people under the care...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1854 - 1210 pages
...the brink of an abyss of democratical lawlessness, was at last entirely overthrown ; and sophistry had the merit of creating a spirit of corruption and...nor bloody revolutions, had been able to produce."* There is a close parallelism, in all respects but the superiority of our national faith, between the...
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