Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J.G. & C. Carvill, 1827 - 476 pagina's |
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Pagina xiii
... thoughts nor the conversation-- Investment of property so as to avoid litigation , and the necessity of resorting to coercive mea- sures to obtain just rights - A grasping , mercena- spirt , vigilantly to be guarded against LETTER XIV ...
... thoughts nor the conversation-- Investment of property so as to avoid litigation , and the necessity of resorting to coercive mea- sures to obtain just rights - A grasping , mercena- spirt , vigilantly to be guarded against LETTER XIV ...
Pagina 17
... thought above the ordinary laws of social inter- course who , of course , violate those laws with- out ceremony ; and make no scruple of indulg- ing in what they know to be considered as rough , offensive manners . The miserable vanity ...
... thought above the ordinary laws of social inter- course who , of course , violate those laws with- out ceremony ; and make no scruple of indulg- ing in what they know to be considered as rough , offensive manners . The miserable vanity ...
Pagina 33
... rise higher than its foun- tain . If I thought this maxim applied as rigid- ly in intellectual and moral culture , I should lay down my pen in despair : or rather , I should not have dared to take it up for the purpose 33.
... rise higher than its foun- tain . If I thought this maxim applied as rigid- ly in intellectual and moral culture , I should lay down my pen in despair : or rather , I should not have dared to take it up for the purpose 33.
Pagina 34
... thought comforts and animates me in the undertaking . My office having placed " me in the way of perceiving how greatly a body precepts and suggestions on this subject is needed ; having never seen any thing which appeared to me to ...
... thought comforts and animates me in the undertaking . My office having placed " me in the way of perceiving how greatly a body precepts and suggestions on this subject is needed ; having never seen any thing which appeared to me to ...
Pagina 36
... thought , my young friend , that you were by far too ready to give way to your risible feelings . Every public man , and espe- cially every clergyman , ought to cultivate that habitual sedateness , and command of his coun- tenance , 36.
... thought , my young friend , that you were by far too ready to give way to your risible feelings . Every public man , and espe- cially every clergyman , ought to cultivate that habitual sedateness , and command of his coun- tenance , 36.
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Pagina 43 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Pagina 416 - Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Pagina 450 - I may say, that the production of this work and most of my other writings, is owing; viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life...
Pagina 471 - I have mentioned his treatises of Theology as distinct from his other productions, but the truth is that whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to Theology.
Pagina 90 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Pagina 91 - In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin : but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Pagina ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Pagina ii - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Pagina 90 - Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Pagina 254 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.