The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, D.D.: With a Life by Dr. Kippis, Volume 9J. Dowding, 1827 |
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... esteem or affec- tion . If you gain men's favour by flattery , you can keep it no longer than you are willing to be their slaves , or their tools . But you may endeavour by easy civilities , and real services , to oblige and gain all ...
... esteem or affec- tion . If you gain men's favour by flattery , you can keep it no longer than you are willing to be their slaves , or their tools . But you may endeavour by easy civilities , and real services , to oblige and gain all ...
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... esteem , it is discretion only that can preserve them . I am not apprehensive of any abuse of the directions here laid down . They have no tendency to make men selfish or cunning . They are designed for the young and unexpe- rienced ...
... esteem , it is discretion only that can preserve them . I am not apprehensive of any abuse of the directions here laid down . They have no tendency to make men selfish or cunning . They are designed for the young and unexpe- rienced ...
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... affection , respect , and esteem , beside , and beyond the sense of our minds : creating thereby vain dependences , and big expectations ; for our own present interest possibly , but A Caution against Conformity to this World . 25.
... affection , respect , and esteem , beside , and beyond the sense of our minds : creating thereby vain dependences , and big expectations ; for our own present interest possibly , but A Caution against Conformity to this World . 25.
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... esteem ! We are therefore to be upon our guard here . We are not to form and raise stories to the prejudice of others . Nor are we to report what we have heard without reserve , or caution , or any good occasion for so doing . Nay , it ...
... esteem ! We are therefore to be upon our guard here . We are not to form and raise stories to the prejudice of others . Nor are we to report what we have heard without reserve , or caution , or any good occasion for so doing . Nay , it ...
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... esteem the orna- ments of the mind above those of the body , and be more concerned about that which is inward , than that which is outward . God declares to the Jews by the prophet Hosea : " I desire mercy , and not sacrifice , " Hos ...
... esteem the orna- ments of the mind above those of the body , and be more concerned about that which is inward , than that which is outward . God declares to the Jews by the prophet Hosea : " I desire mercy , and not sacrifice , " Hos ...
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Page 131 - Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity: I will mock when your fear cometh...
Page 166 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth; when he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of...
Page 541 - This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Page 537 - 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 240 - Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Page 516 - Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas ? and his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things ? " And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, " A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
Page 360 - But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
Page 40 - That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world...
Page 610 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come,) and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 482 - Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.