Sermons to Country Congregations: By the Late Rev. Greo. Haggitt, ...F. and C. Rivington, 1797 |
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... rich to temperance and charity ; and the poor to ho- nest industry and contentment : above all , whoever reflects on the blessedness of turning but one sinner from the error of his ways unto righteousness , will admit , that when the ...
... rich to temperance and charity ; and the poor to ho- nest industry and contentment : above all , whoever reflects on the blessedness of turning but one sinner from the error of his ways unto righteousness , will admit , that when the ...
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... rich , or re- spectable ? No , I must add to my de- sires , endeavours ; I must exert myself ; I must study or I must labour , and that not slightly , or now and then , but vigorously and without remission , or my desires will avail me ...
... rich , or re- spectable ? No , I must add to my de- sires , endeavours ; I must exert myself ; I must study or I must labour , and that not slightly , or now and then , but vigorously and without remission , or my desires will avail me ...
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... rich man is exalted above his fellows , the obsequiousness and flattery which greatness procures , and the appa- rent state of independance , which it creates , are dangerous adversaries to virtue : he who imagines that he feels no ...
... rich man is exalted above his fellows , the obsequiousness and flattery which greatness procures , and the appa- rent state of independance , which it creates , are dangerous adversaries to virtue : he who imagines that he feels no ...
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... rich man may be both virtuous and happy . Let him then , in the first place , remember that all which he possesses was given to him ; that his superiority of station implies no superi- ority of merit , for that worldly prosperity is ...
... rich man may be both virtuous and happy . Let him then , in the first place , remember that all which he possesses was given to him ; that his superiority of station implies no superi- ority of merit , for that worldly prosperity is ...
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... vices adhere universally to the poor , any more than that those , in all instances , belong to the rich ; for if this were the case , it were in vain to ex- hort III . SERM . hort you to guard against them ; I ' Riches and Poverty . 4I.
... vices adhere universally to the poor , any more than that those , in all instances , belong to the rich ; for if this were the case , it were in vain to ex- hort III . SERM . hort you to guard against them ; I ' Riches and Poverty . 4I.
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