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Pagina 8
... - KNOWLEDGE SELF - CONTROL HOW TO LIVE ... GREATNESS THE PROMISES OUR DESIRES FOLLY ... CONSCIENCE ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
... - KNOWLEDGE SELF - CONTROL HOW TO LIVE ... GREATNESS THE PROMISES OUR DESIRES FOLLY ... CONSCIENCE ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Pagina 10
... and if carefully perused and treasured in the heart , may make them wiser and better for such instructions . Such is the hope and desire of THE EDITOR . WISDOM . PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE . ATHER instruction from thy 10 PREFACE .
... and if carefully perused and treasured in the heart , may make them wiser and better for such instructions . Such is the hope and desire of THE EDITOR . WISDOM . PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE . ATHER instruction from thy 10 PREFACE .
Pagina 13
... desire to be wiser , think not yourself wise enough . He that instructs one that thinks himself wise enough , hath a fool to his scholar ; he that thinks himself wise enough to instruct himself , hath a fool to his master . It is a most ...
... desire to be wiser , think not yourself wise enough . He that instructs one that thinks himself wise enough , hath a fool to his scholar ; he that thinks himself wise enough to instruct himself , hath a fool to his master . It is a most ...
Pagina 19
... desire of lasting fame , spurs on the ingenious mind , and makes the greatest difficul- ties delightful . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own . But the great man is ...
... desire of lasting fame , spurs on the ingenious mind , and makes the greatest difficul- ties delightful . It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own . But the great man is ...
Pagina 25
... and reputation are ac- quired ; but contrary causes have contrary effects . Irregular desires and unreasonable undertakings must expect to meet with disappointments . There is a 3 TEMPERANCE , PRUDENCE , AND FORTITUDE . 25.
... and reputation are ac- quired ; but contrary causes have contrary effects . Irregular desires and unreasonable undertakings must expect to meet with disappointments . There is a 3 TEMPERANCE , PRUDENCE , AND FORTITUDE . 25.
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Pagina 17 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Pagina 126 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Pagina 128 - Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea, And laden souls by thousands meekly stealing, Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
Pagina 13 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 39 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Pagina 1 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Pagina 261 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, Angels came and ministered unto him.
Pagina 131 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness ; and he that prays to God with an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him...
Pagina 130 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.