The Elements of CharacterCrosby, Nichols, 1855 - 234 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7
... that is uncertain , insubstantial , and unstable has been exhausted in describing the feebleness of man's power to retain in pos- session the good things of this life , or even life itself . However firmly the hand of man may seem ...
... that is uncertain , insubstantial , and unstable has been exhausted in describing the feebleness of man's power to retain in pos- session the good things of this life , or even life itself . However firmly the hand of man may seem ...
الصفحة 8
Mary Greene Ware. itself . However firmly the hand of man may seem to grasp power , reputation , or wealth ; how ... hands that seek to use it only for the good of those they govern ; reputa- tion may become tarnished , though virtue be ...
Mary Greene Ware. itself . However firmly the hand of man may seem to grasp power , reputation , or wealth ; how ... hands that seek to use it only for the good of those they govern ; reputa- tion may become tarnished , though virtue be ...
الصفحة 16
... hands , or enormously enlarge some particular member of the frame , fancying that they thus express ideas of wisdom or power more perfectly than they could by forming a figure whose parts should all present a symmetrical development ...
... hands , or enormously enlarge some particular member of the frame , fancying that they thus express ideas of wisdom or power more perfectly than they could by forming a figure whose parts should all present a symmetrical development ...
الصفحة 23
... hand in hand , -when the human race shall unite as one to fulfil its duties towards God and towards each other . Violence of every kind springs from a desire to do one's own will . companiment of wrath . constrained any man to Egotism ...
... hand in hand , -when the human race shall unite as one to fulfil its duties towards God and towards each other . Violence of every kind springs from a desire to do one's own will . companiment of wrath . constrained any man to Egotism ...
الصفحة 36
... hands to anything that they do ; and who , therefore , do nothing well . They are the dead weights of society , that must be helped through life by their more active neigh- bors . If they are scholars , they are collectors 36 THE ...
... hands to anything that they do ; and who , therefore , do nothing well . They are the dead weights of society , that must be helped through life by their more active neigh- bors . If they are scholars , they are collectors 36 THE ...
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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...