The Elements of CharacterCrosby, Nichols, 1855 - 234 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 9
... better for us that we had never been born . Character is all we can take with us when we leave this world . Fortune , learning , reputation , power , must all be left behind us in the region of material things ; but Character , the ...
... better for us that we had never been born . Character is all we can take with us when we leave this world . Fortune , learning , reputation , power , must all be left behind us in the region of material things ; but Character , the ...
الصفحة 11
... better with the world if we are polite than if we are rude , we are cultivating a merely external habit , which we shall be likely to throw off as often as we think it safe to go without it , as we should an uncomfortably fitting dress ...
... better with the world if we are polite than if we are rude , we are cultivating a merely external habit , which we shall be likely to throw off as often as we think it safe to go without it , as we should an uncomfortably fitting dress ...
الصفحة 12
... 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 not only as tran ...
... 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 not only as tran ...
الصفحة 32
... better ap- preciate the difficulties to be overcome before we shall be willing to make everything that we do the honest outbirth of everything that we are . Pretence and hypocrisy , subterfuge and falsehood , will then disappear , and ...
... better ap- preciate the difficulties to be overcome before we shall be willing to make everything that we do the honest outbirth of everything that we are . Pretence and hypocrisy , subterfuge and falsehood , will then disappear , and ...
الصفحة 37
... better in theory than in practice ; for with them zeal ever runs before knowledge . They will delight in telling how a thing should be done , but will find it very difficult to do it themselves . A black- smith of this class will tell ...
... better in theory than in practice ; for with them zeal ever runs before knowledge . They will delight in telling how a thing should be done , but will find it very difficult to do it themselves . A black- smith of this class will tell ...
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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...