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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... present pursuit . But there is one qualification for the sacred office , in which , allow me with paternal free- dom to say , you have always appeared to me to be defective . Whatever pleasure your friends may have felt in contemplating ...
... present pursuit . But there is one qualification for the sacred office , in which , allow me with paternal free- dom to say , you have always appeared to me to be defective . Whatever pleasure your friends may have felt in contemplating ...
الصفحة 37
... present at places in which cards or dancing are made a part of the professed and prominent entertainment , I take for granted . But I will . go further . When you are invited even to what are called family parties , and you find either ...
... present at places in which cards or dancing are made a part of the professed and prominent entertainment , I take for granted . But I will . go further . When you are invited even to what are called family parties , and you find either ...
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... present Letter , to mention . some of these personal habits . And let me en- treat you not to consider me as unnecessarily minute or fastidious in my enumeration . Some of the items adverted to , may excite a smile , and others a less ...
... present Letter , to mention . some of these personal habits . And let me en- treat you not to consider me as unnecessarily minute or fastidious in my enumeration . Some of the items adverted to , may excite a smile , and others a less ...
الصفحة 71
... present life , I should consider myself as gaining a most de- sirable object . He who drinks nothing but water , has but little temptation to drink at all more frequently than he ought . Yet it is very possible to take too frequently ...
... present life , I should consider myself as gaining a most de- sirable object . He who drinks nothing but water , has but little temptation to drink at all more frequently than he ought . Yet it is very possible to take too frequently ...
الصفحة 73
... FOR LUXURIOUS EA I G. I shall probably say something hereafter on the mischiefs of intemperate eating , in reference to the bodily health . My design , at present , is merely to speak of those improprieties of manner which 73.
... FOR LUXURIOUS EA I G. I shall probably say something hereafter on the mischiefs of intemperate eating , in reference to the bodily health . My design , at present , is merely to speak of those improprieties of manner which 73.
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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.