 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 pages
...; as if the State were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a...quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. The slight... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1879 - 306 pages
...; as if the State were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a...indifference ; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, wnmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. •"*• The broadest and most... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1901 - 324 pages
...; as if the State were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a...indifference ; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, wnmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. The broadest and most prevalent... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a...quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. The slight... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 452 pages
...naught; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a...quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. The slight... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...naught; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a...indifference ; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, immoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. The broadest and most prevalent... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 pages
...; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a...indifference ; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, immoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. The broadest and most prevalent... | |
 | 1895 - 344 pages
...is astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel, if a single stitch is dropped. 10. After the first blush of sin, comes its indifference ; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, SU(KILI.s unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that CONSTC^KCE life which we have made. 11. It hardens... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pages
...naught; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a moment. Thus, under the name of Order and p Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. After the... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 560 pages
...; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a...quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. The slight... | |
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Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. 
