 | Addison Peale Russell - 1875 - 416 sider
...President Lincoln. — Virtue does not take pupils. — Passages from Souvestre and Mencius. — Thousands hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root. — A passage from Thoreau. — Right, too rigid, hardens in to wrong. — Anecdote of a malicious... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 sider
...There. are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to ione who is striking at the root, and it may j be that he who bestows the largest amount ' of time...produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sunday's liberty... | |
 | 1883 - 410 sider
...most of our charitable institutions could lay to heart the following extract from Henry Thoreau's " Walden" : — " There are a thousand hacking at the...produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sunday's liberty... | |
 | 1887 - 732 sider
...he should run for his life, for lie would rather suffer evil the natural way. So too with charity : "It may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy, ia doing the utmoet by hie mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1888 - 264 sider
...he should run for his life, for he would rather suffer evil the natural way. So too with charity : " It may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy, is doing the utmost by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. Some show their... | |
 | 1915 - 464 sider
...Pfeiffer Chemical Co., St. Louis, in a large territory. Gelatin Glycerin Water THERE are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. WORKING FORMULAS Compressed Tablets Which Readily Disintegrate. The addition of 10 to 20 per cent of... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1890 - 340 sider
...partial and transitory act " in which there is frequently too large an admixture of self-consciousness. " There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil...needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce the misery which he strives in vain to relieve. Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 sider
...There are a thousand hacking ms by pun- at the branches of evil to one who lying your . . own hfe. is striking at the root, and it may be that he who...produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sunday's liberty... | |
 | First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - 1891 - 96 sider
...leads us with sweet music to the goal Where kindred hands stretch out to thine and mine. _ /. S. Woods. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil, to one who is striking at the root. —Thorcau. If you loved only what were worth your love, Love were clear gain, and wholly well for... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 550 sider
...saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil...produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sunday's liberty... | |
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives... 
