The Elements of CharacterCrosby, Nichols, 1855 - 234 من الصفحات |
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... grow more vigorously . There can be no thorough progress in reform until the evil of the whole tree is perceived and acknowledged , and the whole strength is turned to digging it up by the roots . If a man devote himself actively to the ...
... grow more vigorously . There can be no thorough progress in reform until the evil of the whole tree is perceived and acknowledged , and the whole strength is turned to digging it up by the roots . If a man devote himself actively to the ...
الصفحة 27
... we are ready to deny our- selves , and to do the will of God , all sin will be- come abhorrent to us , and we shall grow in daily until we become perfected in that symmet- grace rical form of man , which is the image and CHARACTER . 27 27.
... we are ready to deny our- selves , and to do the will of God , all sin will be- come abhorrent to us , and we shall grow in daily until we become perfected in that symmet- grace rical form of man , which is the image and CHARACTER . 27 27.
الصفحة 43
... grow more light and easy with each revolving year . - There are many persons who seem to belong by turns to each of the three great classes that have been described . These exercise their powers involuntarily . They cannot be depended ...
... grow more light and easy with each revolving year . - There are many persons who seem to belong by turns to each of the three great classes that have been described . These exercise their powers involuntarily . They cannot be depended ...
الصفحة 55
... grows in wisdom day by day . This action of Thought will not be confined to events as they occur around him , but whatever is read , all the events of the past , all art and science , are brought under the same analysis . The ...
... grows in wisdom day by day . This action of Thought will not be confined to events as they occur around him , but whatever is read , all the events of the past , all art and science , are brought under the same analysis . The ...
الصفحة 57
... we may obtain them all . Undigested learning is as useless and oppres- sive as undigested food ; and as in the dyspeptic patient the appetite for food often grows with the ― inability to digest it , so in the unthinking THOUGHT . 57.
... we may obtain them all . Undigested learning is as useless and oppres- sive as undigested food ; and as in the dyspeptic patient the appetite for food often grows with the ― inability to digest it , so in the unthinking THOUGHT . 57.
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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...