The Elements of CharacterCrosby, Nichols, 1855 - 234 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 8
... become tarnished , though virtue be without spot ; health may vanish , though its laws , so far as we understand them , be strictly obeyed ; but there is one thing left which mis- fortune cannot touch , which God is ever seeking to aid ...
... become tarnished , though virtue be without spot ; health may vanish , though its laws , so far as we understand them , be strictly obeyed ; but there is one thing left which mis- fortune cannot touch , which God is ever seeking to aid ...
الصفحة 10
... relation to life , forming a regu- lar system , in accordance with which the Char- acter is shaped and built up ; and unless this be done , the Character cannot become consistent and harmonious . 10 THE ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER .
... relation to life , forming a regu- lar system , in accordance with which the Char- acter is shaped and built up ; and unless this be done , the Character cannot become consistent and harmonious . 10 THE ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER .
الصفحة 11
Mary Greene Ware. done , the Character cannot become consistent and harmonious . It is never too late to begin to do this ; but the earlier in life it is done , the more readily the Character can be conformed to the standard of right ...
Mary Greene Ware. done , the Character cannot become consistent and harmonious . It is never too late to begin to do this ; but the earlier in life it is done , the more readily the Character can be conformed to the standard of right ...
الصفحة 12
... become wiser , better , and more useful to our fel- low - beings , we are cultivating our Characters , — the spiritual essence of our being ; but these very same acquisitions , when sought from motives wholly selfish and worldly , are ...
... become wiser , better , and more useful to our fel- low - beings , we are cultivating our Characters , — the spiritual essence of our being ; but these very same acquisitions , when sought from motives wholly selfish and worldly , are ...
الصفحة 18
... God , his whole being voluntarily as sumes that resemblance to the All - perfect for which he was designed . So long as he makes no effort to become regenerate , after he has arrived at 18 THE ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER .
... God , his whole being voluntarily as sumes that resemblance to the All - perfect for which he was designed . So long as he makes no effort to become regenerate , after he has arrived at 18 THE ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER .
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الصفحة 23 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw. And 'deal damnation round the land. On each I judge thy foe.
الصفحة 212 - Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life that is the most wholesome society ; learn to admire rightly ; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired ; they admired great things : narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
الصفحة 7 - ... never reach, and had I but the power of rightly disposing and relating them, his single example would be more instructive than all the rules of the best moralists, for his practice was of a more Divine extraction, drawn from the Word of God and wrought up by the assistance of His Spirit...
الصفحة 7 - By Christianity I intend that universal habit of grace which is wrought in a soul by the regenerating Spirit of God, whereby the whole creature is resigned up into the divine...