The Elements of CharacterCrosby, Nichols, 1855 - 234 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 24
... means follows of course . We may delight in talking about phi- lanthropy while our hearts are burning with hatred , or about temperance while intoxicated with passion , or about abolitionism while we have no respect for the liberty of ...
... means follows of course . We may delight in talking about phi- lanthropy while our hearts are burning with hatred , or about temperance while intoxicated with passion , or about abolitionism while we have no respect for the liberty of ...
الصفحة 29
... is , absolute love by means of absolute wisdom exhibits itself in ab- solute use . Speaking with exactness , the word sequence is out of place in this connection , be- cause with the Divinity love , wisdom , and oper- THE HUMAN TRINITY.
... is , absolute love by means of absolute wisdom exhibits itself in ab- solute use . Speaking with exactness , the word sequence is out of place in this connection , be- cause with the Divinity love , wisdom , and oper- THE HUMAN TRINITY.
الصفحة 31
... means of bringing the poor , fallen human nature into harmony with the divine ; - let us develop , if we can , a system that may aid us in training our faculties , so that the Affections shall be pure , the Understanding wise , and Life ...
... means of bringing the poor , fallen human nature into harmony with the divine ; - let us develop , if we can , a system that may aid us in training our faculties , so that the Affections shall be pure , the Understanding wise , and Life ...
الصفحة 46
... means to folly , if to nothing worse . Neither wealth nor poverty , neither strength nor weakness , neither genius nor the want of it , neither ten talents nor one , can excuse any human being from training his faculties in a way to ...
... means to folly , if to nothing worse . Neither wealth nor poverty , neither strength nor weakness , neither genius nor the want of it , neither ten talents nor one , can excuse any human being from training his faculties in a way to ...
الصفحة 57
... means we can obtain all these . So facts and thoughts are neither rationality , nor wisdom , nor virtue , and their value lies in their being mediums whereby we may obtain them all . Undigested learning is as useless and oppres- sive as ...
... means we can obtain all these . So facts and thoughts are neither rationality , nor wisdom , nor virtue , and their value lies in their being mediums whereby we may obtain them all . Undigested learning is as useless and oppres- sive as ...
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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...