The Elements of CharacterCrosby, Nichols, 1855 - 234 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 3
... MIND LEARNED TO DWELL UPON RELIGIOUS THEMES WITH PLEASURE , WHILE MY HEART FOUND PEACE IN BELIEVING , THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED , AS A TRIBUTE OF GRATEFUL AFFECTION , BY THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . CHARACTER . THE HUMAN TRINITY . THOUGHT .
... MIND LEARNED TO DWELL UPON RELIGIOUS THEMES WITH PLEASURE , WHILE MY HEART FOUND PEACE IN BELIEVING , THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED , AS A TRIBUTE OF GRATEFUL AFFECTION , BY THE AUTHOR . CONTENTS . CHARACTER . THE HUMAN TRINITY . THOUGHT .
الصفحة 7
... humanity , in relation to the fortunes of this life , have been a favorite theme with philosophers and teachers ever since the world began ; and every term ex- pressive of all that is uncertain , insubstantial , and unstable has been ...
... humanity , in relation to the fortunes of this life , have been a favorite theme with philosophers and teachers ever since the world began ; and every term ex- pressive of all that is uncertain , insubstantial , and unstable has been ...
الصفحة 21
... human ; but rather to the joy of a vulture as he gloats over , and rends in pieces , his carrion prey . While reading or listening to the raging denun- ciations of such persons , one is painfully re- minded of the spirit that a few ...
... human ; but rather to the joy of a vulture as he gloats over , and rends in pieces , his carrion prey . While reading or listening to the raging denun- ciations of such persons , one is painfully re- minded of the spirit that a few ...
الصفحة 23
... 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 is the sure ac- The love ...
... 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 is the sure ac- The love ...
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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...