Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J.G. & C. Carvill, 1827 - 476 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xi
... never right - All harsh- ness , satire , and acrimony to be avoided - Treat- ing aged members with deference -- Gravity- Frequent change of seat - Abstinence from food -Candour and uprightness - Exulting in suc- cess - Submission under ...
... never right - All harsh- ness , satire , and acrimony to be avoided - Treat- ing aged members with deference -- Gravity- Frequent change of seat - Abstinence from food -Candour and uprightness - Exulting in suc- cess - Submission under ...
الصفحة 36
... never fails to lower the estimation in which they are held by all discerning people . I have often thought , my young friend , that you were by far too ready to give way to your risible feelings . Every public man , and espe- cially ...
... never fails to lower the estimation in which they are held by all discerning people . I have often thought , my young friend , that you were by far too ready to give way to your risible feelings . Every public man , and espe- cially ...
الصفحة 41
... never to engage in any covert or questionable course of action . Let both your speech and your con- duct be always so perfectly fair , candid and ho- nourable , that the more they are scrutinized , the more perfectly correct and ...
... never to engage in any covert or questionable course of action . Let both your speech and your con- duct be always so perfectly fair , candid and ho- nourable , that the more they are scrutinized , the more perfectly correct and ...
الصفحة 54
... never discreet . A truly benevolent man ought not to be , and will not be unwilling to incur the responsibility of giving advice , when he sees his way clear to do so , and when there is a probability of good being done by it . But to ...
... never discreet . A truly benevolent man ought not to be , and will not be unwilling to incur the responsibility of giving advice , when he sees his way clear to do so , and when there is a probability of good being done by it . But to ...
الصفحة 57
... never wise for a minister to be so excessive- ly intimate , so inordinately friendly with any particular individual , or individuals , among his people , as to become a subject of remark , or to embarrass him in his intercourse with ...
... never wise for a minister to be so excessive- ly intimate , so inordinately friendly with any particular individual , or individuals , among his people , as to become a subject of remark , or to embarrass him in his intercourse with ...
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الصفحة 43 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
الصفحة 252 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
الصفحة 90 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
الصفحة 377 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
الصفحة ii - In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
الصفحة 58 - As long as we are bound, every hour, to "consider our ways," and, " whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, to do all to the glory of God...
الصفحة ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
الصفحة 448 - I may say, that the production of this work and most of my other writings, is owing; viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life...
الصفحة 90 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
الصفحة 44 - It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. ( It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced.