Lectures to Young Men on the Formation of Character &cCooke, 1831 - 172 pages |
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... hand , and a benevolence of spirit calculated to appeal with effect to the youthful heart : -there is throughout a manly business like exhibition of truth and counsel . The lan- guage is perspicuous , pithy , chaste and natural . Among ...
... hand , and a benevolence of spirit calculated to appeal with effect to the youthful heart : -there is throughout a manly business like exhibition of truth and counsel . The lan- guage is perspicuous , pithy , chaste and natural . Among ...
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... hands and to your keep- ing . I look forward a few short years , and see the aspect of society entirely changed . The venerable fathers , who have borne the heat and burden of the day , are dropping , one after another into the grave ...
... hands and to your keep- ing . I look forward a few short years , and see the aspect of society entirely changed . The venerable fathers , who have borne the heat and burden of the day , are dropping , one after another into the grave ...
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... hands . The various departments of business and trust , the pulpit and the bar , our courts of justice and halls of legislation ; our civil , religious , and literary institutions ; all , in short , that consti- tutes society , and goes ...
... hands . The various departments of business and trust , the pulpit and the bar , our courts of justice and halls of legislation ; our civil , religious , and literary institutions ; all , in short , that consti- tutes society , and goes ...
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... hands . He has no inducement to resort to bad company , or the haunts of dissipation and vice ; he has higher and nobler sources of enjoyment in himself . At pleasure , he can call around him the best of company , -the wisest and great ...
... hands . He has no inducement to resort to bad company , or the haunts of dissipation and vice ; he has higher and nobler sources of enjoyment in himself . At pleasure , he can call around him the best of company , -the wisest and great ...
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... hand , the young man who seriously considers the nature and design of his being ; who shuns the society and flees the amusements of the thoughtless and the vicious ; who devotes his vacant hours to the improve- ment of his mind and ...
... hand , the young man who seriously considers the nature and design of his being ; who shuns the society and flees the amusements of the thoughtless and the vicious ; who devotes his vacant hours to the improve- ment of his mind and ...
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Page 160 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Page 139 - We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you : come thou with us, and we will do thee good : for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
Page 63 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 77 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 25 - We may truly say, the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places, and we have a goodly heritage.
Page 91 - A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.
Page 172 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom : a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Page 154 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.
Page 90 - Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms; And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence: for this was all thy care To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse...
Page 53 - I exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man.