Counsels and cautions for youth, in a ser. of letters1829 |
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الصفحة 38 - And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.
الصفحة 106 - He then took occasion to enlarge on the advantages of reading, and combated the idle superficial notion, that knowledge enough may be acquired in conversation. " The foundation (said he) must be laid by reading. General principles must be had from books, which, however, must be brought to the test of real life. In conversation you never get a system. What is said upon a subject is to be gathered from a hundred people. The parts of a truth, which a man gets thus, are at such a distance from each other...
الصفحة 113 - served up in every shape that is likely to allure, surprise, or beguile the imagination ; in a fable, a tale, a novel, a poem ; in interspersed and broken hints ; remote and oblique surmises ; in books of travels, of philosophy, of natural history ; in a word, in any form, rather than the right one, that of a professed and regular disquisition...
الصفحة 38 - Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
الصفحة 168 - Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other economy has larger views. It demands a discriminating judgment, and a firm, sagacious mind.
الصفحة 183 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
الصفحة 182 - ... submit, adore, and profit by them; recollecting, that " the sublimest truths, and the profoundest mysteries of religion, are as level, perhaps, to the capacities of the meanest as of the highest human intellect. By neither are they to be fully fathomed. By both they may be easily BELIEVED, on the sure testimony of Divine Revelation. As simple and important facts which connect time with eternity, and heaven with earth, they belong equally to men of every order, and are directly calculated to produce...
الصفحة 183 - I say amen with all my heart to your observation on religious characters. Men who profess themselves adepts in mathematical knowledge, in astronomy, or jurisprudence, are generally as well qualified as they would appear. The reason may be, that they are always liable to detection should they attempt to impose upon mankind, and therefore take care to be what they pretend. In religion alone a profession is often slightly taken up and slovenly carried on, because, forsooth...
الصفحة 66 - The world's a school Of wrong, and what proficients swarm around ! We must or imitate or disapprove ; Must list as their accomplices or foes: That stains our innocence, this wounds our peace.
الصفحة 161 - In order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman, I took care not only to be in reality industrious and frugal, but to avoid all appearances to the contrary.