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 36
... express- ed in six words - Dignity , Gentleness , Con- descension , Affability , Reserve , and Unifor mily . 1. Dignity . By this I mean that happy mix- ture of gravity and elevation in human de- portment , which evinces a mind ...
... express- ed in six words - Dignity , Gentleness , Con- descension , Affability , Reserve , and Unifor mily . 1. Dignity . By this I mean that happy mix- ture of gravity and elevation in human de- portment , which evinces a mind ...
Pagina 128
... express an unfavourable opinion , the terms , " contempti ble , " " execrable , " " detestable , " are the soft- est which they think of employing In short , the more high - wrought their figures , and the more intense and ardent their ...
... express an unfavourable opinion , the terms , " contempti ble , " " execrable , " " detestable , " are the soft- est which they think of employing In short , the more high - wrought their figures , and the more intense and ardent their ...
Pagina 164
... express its heavenly doctrines . But the lan- guage which I advise you to avoid , is not , as commonly employed , Bible language at all . And I see no advantage , but rather the contra- ry , in the use of terms , against which many are ...
... express its heavenly doctrines . But the lan- guage which I advise you to avoid , is not , as commonly employed , Bible language at all . And I see no advantage , but rather the contra- ry , in the use of terms , against which many are ...
Pagina 184
... express it , the pilot of the soul , in pass- ing " the valley of the shadow of death ; " to awaken and alarm the unprepared ; to counse ] the perplexed and doubting ; to calm the agi- tation of the timid believer ; and to pour the 184.
... express it , the pilot of the soul , in pass- ing " the valley of the shadow of death ; " to awaken and alarm the unprepared ; to counse ] the perplexed and doubting ; to calm the agi- tation of the timid believer ; and to pour the 184.
Pagina 259
... express what he knows on paper . He then finds himself at a loss at every step , and cannot proceed without much extension , and no less correction , of his former attain- ments . Nay , sometimes he finds that he must begin again , from ...
... express what he knows on paper . He then finds himself at a loss at every step , and cannot proceed without much extension , and no less correction , of his former attain- ments . Nay , sometimes he finds that he must begin again , from ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 92 - In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin : but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
Pagina 91 - 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 449 - 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 91 - Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Pagina 45 - It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value.
Pagina 91 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Pagina iii - 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 iii - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the author 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...
Pagina 44 - 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...
Pagina 210 - ... let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.