An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance

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S. T. Armstrong, 1821 - 300 Seiten

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Seite 279 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Seite ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Seite 253 - Him, who, though he was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich; and I say not that I will add a little more, but, how can I keep back any thing?
Seite 208 - Prejudice may perhaps be removed ; unbelief may be reasoned with ; even demoniacs have been capable of bearing witness to the truth ; but the stupidity of confirmed ignorance, not only defeats the ultimate efficacy of the means for making men wiser and better, but stands in preliminary defiance to the very act of their application. It reminds us of an account, in one of the relations of the French Egyptian campaigns, of the attempt to reduce a garrison posted in a bulky fort of mud. Had the defences...
Seite 77 - On the low level of th' inglorious throng;" and our attention is borne away to the intellectual splendour exhibited among the most favoured aspirants of the seats of learning, or in councils, in courts, camps, and heroic and romantic enterprises, and in some immortal works of genius. And thus we are as if gazing with delight at a prodigious public bonfire, while, in all the cottages round, the people are shivering for want of fuel.
Seite 148 - His lot has been to labour hard through the week, throughout his whole life. Yes, we answer, but he has had three thousand Sundays ; what would not even the most moderate improvement of so immense a quantity of time have done for him ? But the ill-fated man (perhaps rejoins the commiserating pleader) had no advantages of education, had nothing in any sense deserving that name. There, we reply, you strike the mark. Sundays are of no practical value, nor Bibles, nor the enlarged knowledge of the age,...
Seite ii - An act supplementary to an act, entitled, * An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,* and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Seite 268 - What a number, if the sum of all these reminiscences of these ideas, in all the minds now assembled in a numerous school, could be conjectured ! But if one in a hundred of these recollections, if one in a thousand, shall have the efficacy that it ought to have, who can compute the amount of the good resulting from the...
Seite 100 - ... have still before us a most melancholy spectacle. Even that proportion of beneficial effect which actually has resulted from this new creation and co-operation of means, but serves to bring out to view, in more ungracious manifestation, the ignorance and debasement, still obviously constituting the character of immensely the greater part of the population of our land ; . as a dreary waste is made to look still more dreary by the little inroads of cultivation and beauty in its hollows, and the...
Seite 63 - It was even as if, to use the prophet's language, the very ' stone cried out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber answered it,' in denunciation ; for a portion of the means of building...

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