God's charge unto Israel; A sermon preached before His Honor Samuel T. Armstrong, lieutenant governor, the honorable Council, and the legislature of ... election, on Wednesday, January 6, 1836 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... tossed to and fro on the angry sea of civil commotion--jostling and crashing like hostile fleets or a convoy in a storm. If we look further, we are presented with another catalogue of evils. We see luxury, the fatal bane of all republics, spreading its infection and eating as a gangrene into the vitals of the state:--Intemperance, insatiate monster, still rioting in the land, and claiming new hecatombs to swell, the mighty heap of victim inebriates already offered in the horrid sacrifice;--habits of extravagance growing apace, 'confined to no one class of society--nourished by false estimates of things, and exercised on objects of fond and foolish desire,--tastes often outstripping the means of supply, and bringing distress into families, embarrassments in business, and a fatal blight on men's fortunes and worldly expectations. Every man is emulous to overtop his fellows. Every grade of life down to the poorest and humblest, is pressing upon the skirts, and striving for an equality--perhaps to something more, on the score of wealth and privilege--with that next above. Expenditures are suited not to the standard of one's means, nor yet of one's rational wants,--but the measure of other men's disbursements. Difference in the length of purse by no means produces always a proportionate difference in the outgoes. To remedy the inconveniences so surely to follow,--even where the darker feelings of envy and sullen ill-will may not be indulged,--a passion for wealth is inOrdi nately cherished. A man is in haste to grow rich. He hears of sudden and brilliant acquisitions of property, and covets like fortune for himself. Small gains no longer content him. Frugality, or a wise and prudent thrift, he unhappily despises. He embarks capital, pawns credit, and...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... tossed to and fro on the angry sea of civil commotion--jostling and crashing like hostile fleets or a convoy in a storm. If we look further, we are presented with another catalogue of evils. We see luxury, the fatal bane of all republics, spreading its infection and eating as a gangrene into the vitals of the state:--Intemperance, insatiate monster, still rioting in the land, and claiming new hecatombs to swell, the mighty heap of victim inebriates already offered in the horrid sacrifice;--habits of extravagance growing apace, 'confined to no one class of society--nourished by false estimates of things, and exercised on objects of fond and foolish desire,--tastes often outstripping the means of supply, and bringing distress into families, embarrassments in business, and a fatal blight on men's fortunes and worldly expectations. Every man is emulous to overtop his fellows. Every grade of life down to the poorest and humblest, is pressing upon the skirts, and striving for an equality--perhaps to something more, on the score of wealth and privilege--with that next above. Expenditures are suited not to the standard of one's means, nor yet of one's rational wants,--but the measure of other men's disbursements. Difference in the length of purse by no means produces always a proportionate difference in the outgoes. To remedy the inconveniences so surely to follow,--even where the darker feelings of envy and sullen ill-will may not be indulged,--a passion for wealth is inOrdi nately cherished. A man is in haste to grow rich. He hears of sudden and brilliant acquisitions of property, and covets like fortune for himself. Small gains no longer content him. Frugality, or a wise and prudent thrift, he unhappily despises. He embarks capital, pawns credit, and...
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