The Elements of CharacterCrosby, Nichols, 1855 - 234 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 17
... strength is turned to digging it up by the roots . If a man devote himself actively to the reform of some special vice , while he at the same time shows himself indifferent to other vices in him- self or in his neighbors , it is evident ...
... strength is turned to digging it up by the roots . If a man devote himself actively to the reform of some special vice , while he at the same time shows himself indifferent to other vices in him- self or in his neighbors , it is evident ...
الصفحة 19
... strength of the Lord to sustain his endeavors , he begins to avoid sin because it is abhorrent to God , and to fulfil the command- ments because they are the words of God . Then only he begins to form himself into the symmetrical figure ...
... strength of the Lord to sustain his endeavors , he begins to avoid sin because it is abhorrent to God , and to fulfil the command- ments because they are the words of God . Then only he begins to form himself into the symmetrical figure ...
الصفحة 33
... strength . Can this signify anything else than that Affection , Imagination , and Thought , in their whole strength , or brought down into the ultimates of life , must be conse- crated to the Divine Creator of them all ? So 3 THE HUMAN ...
... strength . Can this signify anything else than that Affection , Imagination , and Thought , in their whole strength , or brought down into the ultimates of life , must be conse- crated to the Divine Creator of them all ? So 3 THE HUMAN ...
الصفحة 41
... strength , in the very place where we now are , and at the very time that now is . It is not be- cause the power of growth is not in them that our talents do not multiply , but because we fold them in a napkin of indifference , and bury ...
... strength , in the very place where we now are , and at the very time that now is . It is not be- cause the power of growth is not in them that our talents do not multiply , but because we fold them in a napkin of indifference , and bury ...
الصفحة 42
... and soul and mind and strength , seeking only such rewards as Mammon bestows upon his vota- ries . Whether all these are to be successful in attaining the rewards they seek , is a matter of 42 THE ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER .
... and soul and mind and strength , seeking only such rewards as Mammon bestows upon his vota- ries . Whether all these are to be successful in attaining the rewards they seek , is a matter of 42 THE ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER .
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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...