 | Edward Warren Day - 1895 - 524 pages
...SEDGWICK HUBBARD of Geneva, NY (Descended from Wi:ila:n II:dliurd nf Dorehester and Northampton. Mass ) There is a moral and philosophical respect for our...ancestors which elevates the character and Improves the heart— Daniel Wthtttr. WILLIAM HULBERD (Hulhard Hulhert, Hulhurt. Hulhurd. etc.), came from England... | |
 | W. Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms - Connecticut - 1896 - 438 pages
...local histories have been recently placed upon the shelves. A. <'. BATES, «-SVn-. NOTES AND QUERIES. "There is a Moral and Philosophical respect for our...Ancestors which elevates the character and improves the heart."— Webster. Those having queries they desire to have answered are advised to send them to us;... | |
 | W. Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms - Connecticut - 1896 - 482 pages
...and local histories have been recently placed upon the shelves. AC BATES, Secy, NOTES AND QUERIES. "There is a Moral and Philosophical respect for our...Ancestors which elevates the character and improves the heart." — Wtbster. Those having queries they desire to have answered are advised to send them to... | |
 | 1898 - 20 pages
..."There may be, and there often is, a regard for ancestry which nourishes a weak pride, but there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors which elevates the character and improves the heart." — Daniel Webster. Many families of Averys and A very descendants have expressed surprise... | |
 | 1899 - 310 pages
...There may be and there often is a regard for ancestry which nourishes a weak pride, but there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors which elevates the character and improves the heart." — Daniel Webster. In "Hotten's List of Emigrants to America, 160x3-1700," we find among the... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 448 pages
...disguises a habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 578 pages
...disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1900 - 448 pages
...disguises a habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 480 pages
...disguises a habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger... | |
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There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard for ancestry, which nourishes only a weak pride; as there is also a care for posterity, which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also... 
