 | Methodist Church - 1827 - 512 pages
...cannot satisfy it. Nor is it in the power of the governments of this world, in their most perfect forms, so to interest the feelings, so to regulate the desires,...later burst out and endanger the whole body politic. 1 know it has been supposed, by the politicians, that in an intelligent and well educated community,... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1837 - 396 pages
...cannot satisfy it. Nor is it in the power of the governments of this world, in their most perfect forms, so to interest the feelings, so to regulate . the...desires, so to restrain the passions, or so to divert, or I charm, or chain the souls of a whole community, but that I these latent and ungovernable fires will... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...power of the governments of this world, in their most perfect forms, so to interest the feel15 ings, so to regulate the desires, so to restrain the passions,...later, burst out and endanger the whole body politic. 20 What has been the fate of the ancient republics ? They have been dissolved by this same restless... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1827 - 506 pages
...cannot satisfy it. Nor is it in the power of the governments of this world, in their most perfect forms, so to interest the feelings, so to regulate the desires,...politic. I know it has been supposed, by the politicians, that in an intelligent and well educated community, a government might be so constituted, by a proper... | |
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... among all classes, prove that such is the ambitious nature of the soul, such the increasing compass of its vast desires, that the material universe, with all its vastness, richness, and variety, cannot satisfy it. Nor is it in the power of the governments... 