Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 45
... 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 SELF - RELIANCE . 45.
... 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 SELF - RELIANCE . 45.
Page 47
... society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are . And , of course , so much force is with ...
... society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are . And , of course , so much force is with ...
Page 49
... society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no con- cernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act ...
... society is made to growl and mow , it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no con- cernment . The other terror that scares us from self - trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act ...
Page 53
... society reminds us of somewhat else , or of some other person . Char- acter , reality , reminds you of nothing else ; it takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much , that he must make all circumstances indifferent ...
... society reminds us of somewhat else , or of some other person . Char- acter , reality , reminds you of nothing else ; it takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much , that he must make all circumstances indifferent ...
Page 65
... , that he may in good earnest be doctrine , society , law , to himself , that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others ! If any man consider the present aspects of what is 5 SELF - RELIANCE . 65.
... , that he may in good earnest be doctrine , society , law , to himself , that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others ! If any man consider the present aspects of what is 5 SELF - RELIANCE . 65.
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