The Elements of CharacterCrosby, Nichols, 1855 - 234 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7
... virtue gives than what virtue is ; the reward rather than the service , the felicity rather than the life , the dowry , let me say , rather than the bride . " - T . T. STONE . " His practice was of a more divine extraction , drawn from ...
... virtue gives than what virtue is ; the reward rather than the service , the felicity rather than the life , the dowry , let me say , rather than the bride . " - T . T. STONE . " His practice was of a more divine extraction , drawn from ...
الصفحة 8
... virtue be without spot ; health may vanish , though its laws , so far as we understand them , be strictly obeyed ; but there is one thing left which mis- fortune cannot touch , which God is ever seeking to aid us in building up , and ...
... virtue be without spot ; health may vanish , though its laws , so far as we understand them , be strictly obeyed ; but there is one thing left which mis- fortune cannot touch , which God is ever seeking to aid us in building up , and ...
الصفحة 10
... Virtue is its own reward , because its perform- ance creates the kingdom of heaven within us , and we cannot attain to virtue until we strive after it for its own sake . A wisely trained Character never stops to ask , What will society ...
... Virtue is its own reward , because its perform- ance creates the kingdom of heaven within us , and we cannot attain to virtue until we strive after it for its own sake . A wisely trained Character never stops to ask , What will society ...
الصفحة 13
... virtue is not enough to make a moral being . It cannot be doubted that the present surpasses all former ages in its eagerness to put down several of the most prominent vices to which man is subject ; but it may be well to pause and ...
... virtue is not enough to make a moral being . It cannot be doubted that the present surpasses all former ages in its eagerness to put down several of the most prominent vices to which man is subject ; but it may be well to pause and ...
الصفحة 14
... special branch of reform are apt to lose the power of ap- preciating any virtue save that one which they have selected as their own , and which they seem to love , not so much because it is a 14 THE ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER .
... special branch of reform are apt to lose the power of ap- preciating any virtue save that one which they have selected as their own , and which they seem to love , not so much because it is a 14 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...