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From the stand-point of universal history it was nevertheless the correct and proper view. The emancipation of the negro, as an incidental result of the struggle, was a priceless gain which was greeted warmly by all right-minded people.
How some of the purest and noblest women, some of the ablest and most right-minded men, will spring from families, will be reared in households, where everything was against them where there was everything to make them profligate, false, reckless, in a word bad except the grace of God, which was trying to make them good, and succeeded in making them good; and how, though they have felt the punishment of their parents' sins upon them in many ways during their whole life, yet that has been to them not a mere punishment, but a chastisement, a purifying medicine, a cross to be borne, which only stirred them up to greater watchfulness against sin, to greater earnestness in educating their children, to greater activity and energy in doing right, and giving their children the advantages which they had not themselves.
That the Prince of Bearne could ever possibly succeed to the throne of his ancestors was an idea to be treated only with sublime scorn by all right-minded and sensible men.
Every right-minded person detests snakes, don't they? And yet, how exquisitely flexible and beautiful he is! Oh, pray don't put him back in his box for me. He's basking in the sun here. I should be sorry to disturb him." Cyril Waring looked at her in considerable surprise.
"Would you be disposed now, to work for me at a moderate price?" "With pleasure; nay, I shall be indebted to her, for all the world will admire Roxana and inquire who may be her tailor." "You are a very reasonable and right-minded man. What now would you charge for a dress for her?" "That we can discuss later." "No, no, I beg you sincerely " "First let me consider what you want.
He considered what ugly, idle, hard-drinking scamps many of his own relations had been; the miserable scriveners, usurers, and pawnbrokers that he had numbered among his forefathers, and the probability that some of their bad qualities would have come out in a merely corporeal child, to give him sorrow in his old age, turn his black hairs gray, his gray hairs white, cut down every stick of timber, and Heaven knows what all, had he not, like a skilful gardener, minded his grafting and changed the sort; till at length this right-minded man fell down on his knees every night and morning and thanked God that he was not as other meanly descended fathers in such matters.
And then, in that light, it does seem to me, that this Institution small now, but I do hope some day to become great and to become the mother institution of many and valuable children is one of the noblest, most right-minded, straightforward, and practical conceptions that I have come across for some years. We all know the difficulties of sanitary legislation.
That the Prince of Bearne could ever possibly succeed to the throne of his ancestors was an idea to be treated only with sublime scorn by all right-minded and sensible men.
"It concerns right-minded people anywhere when a boy who stands on the threshold of manhood makes a grievous mistake." "That remains to be proven." "And it will be speedily, as you must learn to your cost. If you really want a mill on the Pascataqua, I will show you how it can be built at once." "I should like to learn the secret."
As Cynthia Lennox swept down the walk to-day, the old lady said, sharply: "I don't see why she should walk any prouder than anybody else. I don't know why she should, if she's right-minded. The Lennoxes wasn't any grander than the Brewsters way back, if they have got a little more money of late years.
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