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Pagina 10
... vice and virtue in their proper colours . No kind of writing can be better calculated to form the minds of youth , and give them a more just conception of things , than what is contained in the following pages ; and if carefully perused ...
... vice and virtue in their proper colours . No kind of writing can be better calculated to form the minds of youth , and give them a more just conception of things , than what is contained in the following pages ; and if carefully perused ...
Pagina 36
... 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 occasion of our ...
... 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 occasion of our ...
Pagina 38
... defence of a covetous man to instance his inattention to his own affairs , as if he might not at once be corrupted by avarice and idleness . Avarice is an uniform and tractable vice ; other intellectual 38 MAXIMS OF THE WISE AND GOOD .
... defence of a covetous man to instance his inattention to his own affairs , as if he might not at once be corrupted by avarice and idleness . Avarice is an uniform and tractable vice ; other intellectual 38 MAXIMS OF THE WISE AND GOOD .
Pagina 39
Maxims. Avarice is an uniform and tractable vice ; other intellectual distempers are different in different con- stitutions of mind . That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another ; but to the favour of the ...
Maxims. Avarice is an uniform and tractable vice ; other intellectual distempers are different in different con- stitutions of mind . That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another ; but to the favour of the ...
Pagina 44
... and satisfy them for awhile . There is power in ambition , and pleasure in luxury , and pelf in covetousness ; but envy can give nothing but vexation . Take heed you harbour not that vice called envy ,. ENVY AND DETRACTION.
... and satisfy them for awhile . There is power in ambition , and pleasure in luxury , and pelf in covetousness ; but envy can give nothing but vexation . Take heed you harbour not that vice called envy ,. ENVY AND DETRACTION.
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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.