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The social virtues must, therefore, be allowed to have a natural beauty and amiableness, which, at first, antecedent to all precept or education, recommends them to the esteem of uninstructed mankind, and engages their affections.
So that they do it honestly, the Catholic Church does not condemn it. The instructed are, on the whole, of greater consideration than the uninstructed. The business of the Catholic Church is to see that this source of power is not turned to the destruction of those that acquire it.
You ministers of the gospel address yourselves unabashed to the poor, the humble, the uninstructed. Did Heaven give you power and commandment over these alone? Go, Preacher! go! Speak with the same authority to the great, to the haughty, to the wise!" The old man's look and gesture were sublime.
Tuttle, uninstructed as to following in a circumstance like this, had there dropped the trail. "What seemed to be the nature of the big surprise he had in mind?" inquired Garrison. "Could you gather anything at all?" "Nothing more than that. He appeared to be brooding over some sort of revenge he had in his mind, or something he meant to do, but he was careful to keep it to himself."
And O, if he had only listened; but he had gone upon their errand he, a barrister, uninstructed even by the shadow of a solicitor upon an errand fit only for a private detective; and alas! and for the hundredth time the blood surged to his brow he had taken their money! 'No, said he, 'the thing is as plain as St Paul's. I shall be dishonoured! I have smashed my career for a five-pound note.
Both these errors have come from an ill-judged and a thoughtless tenderness, a tenderness to the young in not calling upon them to provide for the decent and comfortable departure of their progenitors; and a tenderness to the old lest the man, when uninstructed and unconscious of good and evil, should be unwilling to leave the world for which he is not fitted.
If you leave the multitude uninstructed, there is serious risk that religious animosities may produce the most dreadful disorders. The most dreadful disorders! Those are Adam Smith's own words; and prophetic words they were. Scarcely had he given this warning to our rulers when his prediction was fulfilled in a manner never to be forgotten. I speak of the No Popery riots of 1780.
Hence it is that all the processes of nature and the contrivances of art are so many lessons or communications to an instructed man; but an uninstructed one walks in the midst of them like a blind man among colors, or a deaf man among sounds. The Romans carried their aqueducts from hill-top to hill-top, on lofty arches erected at immense expenditure of time and money.
Berry appealed to him in pathetic dumb show. Doubtless by this time Adrian did see it all, and was mentally cursing at Folly, and reckoning the immediate consequences, but he looked uninstructed, his peculiar dimple-smile was undisturbed, his comfortable full-bodied posture was the same. "Well, ma'am?" he spurred her on. Mrs. Berry burst forth: "It were done this mornin', Mr.
Are you competent to the direction and culture of the intellectual and moral nature? Have you skill to touch the hidden springs of action? Have you, thus uninstructed, the power, the knowledge, the wisdom, requisite for guiding that mighty force, a child's soul?" "Alas! there is hardly a day that I do not feel my ignorance on all these points."
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