American Unitarian Biography: Memoirs of Individuals who Have Been Distinguished by Their Writings, Character, and Efforts in the Cause of Liberal Christianity, Volume 1William Ware J. Munroe, 1850 - 396 pagina's |
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Abraham Tucker affection affectionate Athanasian Creed attention benevolent Calvinistic Cambridge character Christ Christian church College congregation conversation course death delightful devoted discourse Divinity doctrine duty early eminent expressed faith father favor feelings felt Freeman friends gospel habits happy Harvard College heart Hollis honor hope human impression influence inquiries interest JOHN ALLYN JOHN THORNTON KIRKLAND King's Chapel Kirkland labors learning letter liberal liberal Christianity lived manner MEMOIR ment mind minister ministry moral nature ness never Noah Worcester object occasion opinions ordination parish pastor peace peculiar period Phillips Academy piety preacher preaching President profes profession published pulpit reason received regard religion religious remarkable respect Ripley Samuel Worcester Scriptures seemed sentiments sermon society spirit theological thing Thomas Hollis thought tion town Trinitarians truth Unitarian Unitarian Christianity views Ware Worcester words writing
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Pagina 118 - ... in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season ! " To this vigorous and animated delineation, I shall now add a few particulars from my own observation and reflection.
Pagina 318 - A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
Pagina 305 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Pagina 304 - But, the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness...
Pagina 342 - ... longest on the wing. Ask him, indeed, what trophies he has raised, Or what achievements of immortal fame He purposes, and he shall answer — None. His warfare is within. There unfatigued His fervent spirit labours. There he fights, And there obtains fresh triumphs o'er himself, And never-withering wreaths ; compared with which The laurels that a Caesar reaps are weeds.
Pagina 131 - Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Pagina 150 - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Pagina 300 - And busily gan for the soules pray Of them that gave him <25> wherewith to scholay* Of study took he moste care and heed. Not one word spake he more than was need; And that was said in form and reverence, And short and quick, and full of high sentence. Sounding in moral virtue was his speech, And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
Pagina 178 - ... it is with the deepest regret that I recollect in my manhood the opportunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance ; and...
Pagina 200 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.