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Pagina 8
... ... KNOWLEDGE VIRTUE ... ... ... ... ... PRIDE AND VANITY ... LOVE TO CHRIST ... RELIGION UNBELIEF IDLENESS ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .
... ... KNOWLEDGE VIRTUE ... ... ... ... ... PRIDE AND VANITY ... LOVE TO CHRIST ... RELIGION UNBELIEF IDLENESS ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .
Pagina 36
... Pride is a vice , which pride itself inclines every man to find in others , and to overlook in himself . Pride is an abomination in the sight of God ; and the judgment is just upon us , when the subject of our vanity becomes the ...
... Pride is a vice , which pride itself inclines every man to find in others , and to overlook in himself . Pride is an abomination in the sight of God ; and the judgment is just upon us , when the subject of our vanity becomes the ...
Pagina 38
... pride ; and yet , at the same time , there is not any single view of human nature , under its present condition , which is not sufficient to ex- tinguish in us all the secret seeds of pride , and , on the contrary , to sink the soul ...
... pride ; and yet , at the same time , there is not any single view of human nature , under its present condition , which is not sufficient to ex- tinguish in us all the secret seeds of pride , and , on the contrary , to sink the soul ...
Pagina 39
... pride of one will offend the pride of another ; but to the favour of the covetous bring money , and nothing is denied . Money , like dung , does no good till it is spread . There is no real use of riches except it be in the distribution ...
... pride of one will offend the pride of another ; but to the favour of the covetous bring money , and nothing is denied . Money , like dung , does no good till it is spread . There is no real use of riches except it be in the distribution ...
Pagina 45
... pride ; pride poisoned with malice becomes envy . Join , therefore , humility with your virtue , and pride shall have no footing , nor envy find an entrance . The envious are always malicious , and never to be trusted without danger ...
... pride ; pride poisoned with malice becomes envy . Join , therefore , humility with your virtue , and pride shall have no footing , nor envy find an entrance . The envious are always malicious , and never to be trusted without danger ...
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Populaire passages
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.