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... excite the interest of rational beings , — when they study and appreciate their own position as affecting , and affect- ed by , wide social relations , and perceive the magnitude and importance of the duties it imposes , they will feel ...
... excite the interest of rational beings , — when they study and appreciate their own position as affecting , and affect- ed by , wide social relations , and perceive the magnitude and importance of the duties it imposes , they will feel ...
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... excite affection which they neither respond to , nor value ; and who , in the ex- citement of this game of artifice , are much more likely to lose sight of all that makes married life dignified or happy . Another consequence of this ...
... excite affection which they neither respond to , nor value ; and who , in the ex- citement of this game of artifice , are much more likely to lose sight of all that makes married life dignified or happy . Another consequence of this ...
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... excite the endeavor of the noblest and highest gifted of God's creatures , and earnestly hope to aid some in reaching it . We offer no easy task to al- - no aim of social distinction CHAPTER II . POWER AND INFLUENCE OF HABIT . THE.
... excite the endeavor of the noblest and highest gifted of God's creatures , and earnestly hope to aid some in reaching it . We offer no easy task to al- - no aim of social distinction CHAPTER II . POWER AND INFLUENCE OF HABIT . THE.
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... excite the feelings , we shall often be star- tled by the painful contrast of virtuous sentiments and vicious * Analogy of Religion , Nat . and Rev. , Part I. Chap V. actions , passive admiration of what is good and true 70 POWER AND ...
... excite the feelings , we shall often be star- tled by the painful contrast of virtuous sentiments and vicious * Analogy of Religion , Nat . and Rev. , Part I. Chap V. actions , passive admiration of what is good and true 70 POWER AND ...
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... excite these passions are constantly and prominently forced upon our attention ; a great part of our time is necessarily spent among them , and we are in constant danger of allowing them to engross the whole . The advantages of wealth ...
... excite these passions are constantly and prominently forced upon our attention ; a great part of our time is necessarily spent among them , and we are in constant danger of allowing them to engross the whole . The advantages of wealth ...
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Page 367 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 112 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 420 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Page 109 - On which ground, too, let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of inValuable service: "Do the Duty which lies nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a Duty ! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.
Page 367 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and mort times for lucre and profession...
Page 204 - Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 397 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 394 - Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow. And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires. With those just spirits that wear victorious palms. Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly: That we on earth with undiscording voice May rightly answer that melodious noise; As once we did.
Page 420 - Let not then your good be evil spoken of: for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.
Page 318 - ... far it is ours; without that, it is but so much loose matter floating in our brain. The memory may be stored, but the judgment is little better, and the stock of knowledge not increased, by being able to repeat what others have said, or produce the arguments we have found in them.