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 vii
... persons in high station - Violating good manners -Conversing with persons under religious im- pressions Giving sound do trinal instruction-- Being too ready to administer comfort to the anxious and inquiring - Excessive haste to pub ...
... persons in high station - Violating good manners -Conversing with persons under religious im- pressions Giving sound do trinal instruction-- Being too ready to administer comfort to the anxious and inquiring - Excessive haste to pub ...
Pagina 17
... persons , and even ministers of the gospel , who love to be singu- lar ; who take pleasure and pride in being thought above the ordinary laws of social inter- course who , of course , violate those laws with- out ceremony ; and make no ...
... persons , and even ministers of the gospel , who love to be singu- lar ; who take pleasure and pride in being thought above the ordinary laws of social inter- course who , of course , violate those laws with- out ceremony ; and make no ...
Pagina 20
... persons who pass for well - bred , and even highly bred , in such scenes , are among the most disgusting and troublesome , and , of course , among the worst - bred people in the world . But my object is to recommend those manners which ...
... persons who pass for well - bred , and even highly bred , in such scenes , are among the most disgusting and troublesome , and , of course , among the worst - bred people in the world . But my object is to recommend those manners which ...
Pagina 36
... persons of secular professions , is barely tolerated , even in them , and certainly adds nothing to their respectably in the view of any one : but which in misters of the gospel , is peculiarly unseem- ly , and never fails to lower the ...
... persons of secular professions , is barely tolerated , even in them , and certainly adds nothing to their respectably in the view of any one : but which in misters of the gospel , is peculiarly unseem- ly , and never fails to lower the ...
Pagina 42
... person whatever , to do or say that which , if it should become fully known to the publick , would place your charac- ter in an awkward point of light . Even , if dis- closed , it be very far from fixing the charge of dishonesty upon ...
... person whatever , to do or say that which , if it should become fully known to the publick , would place your charac- ter in an awkward point of light . Even , if dis- closed , it be very far from fixing the charge of dishonesty upon ...
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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.