Constructive Citizenship

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Doubleday, Doran, 1927 - 300 halaman
 

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Halaman 94 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Halaman 43 - He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear; And struck his finger on the place, And said : Thou ailest here, and here...
Halaman 289 - For the laws of nature, as justice, equity, modesty, mercy, and, in sum, doing to others, as we would be done to, of themselves, without the terror of some power, to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our natural passions, that carry us to partiality, pride, revenge, and the like.
Halaman 299 - It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigor and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling, that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth ; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Halaman 300 - To be fully persuaded that all virtue which is impracticable is spurious; and rather to run the risk of falling into faults in a course which leads us to act with effect and energy than to loiter out our days without blame and without use. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.
Halaman 299 - ... our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth : so to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen. To cultivate friendships and to incur enmities : to have both strong, but both selected : in the one, to be placable ; in the other, immoveable. To model our principles to our duties and our situation. To...
Halaman 81 - There is also another thing; a city is builded, and set upon a broad field, and is full of all good things: the entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water: and one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.
Halaman 58 - Kallen, and Pound. Says Jacks: History shows — and history has no deeper lesson to teach — that the institutions that last longest, that link human beings together in the most abiding and beneficent fellowship, are those that rest upon a fiduciary basis, those that embody a tradition of trustworthy service, those that gather to their service a continuous succession of honorable and loyal men...
Halaman 60 - OKILL, trusteeship, scientific method, these three, which are obviously related to one another, indicate the main sources of strength in modern civilization.
Halaman 81 - leep. between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once. If this city now be given unto a man for an inheritance, if the heir pass not the danger set before him, how shall he receive his inheritance ? And I said, It is so, Lord. Then eaid he unto me, Even so also is Israel's portion.

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