Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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Page 9
... direct their especial vigilance , during the course of each day , to one particular fault alone . This has been found to sharpen self - scrutiny upon every other point , as well as that which is kept principally in view . One of the ...
... direct their especial vigilance , during the course of each day , to one particular fault alone . This has been found to sharpen self - scrutiny upon every other point , as well as that which is kept principally in view . One of the ...
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... direct assertion of authority . By feelings such as these , how much may be unnecessarily added to the weight and bitterness of the daily cross ! How much more difficult some unpalatable act of obedience will be to you because you fancy ...
... direct assertion of authority . By feelings such as these , how much may be unnecessarily added to the weight and bitterness of the daily cross ! How much more difficult some unpalatable act of obedience will be to you because you fancy ...
Page 37
... direct relation to those who are in authority , in a superior instead of a subordinate position . For it would be almost surely a useless waste of words . Those who have not learned to subdue self - will during their youthful years are ...
... direct relation to those who are in authority , in a superior instead of a subordinate position . For it would be almost surely a useless waste of words . Those who have not learned to subdue self - will during their youthful years are ...
Page 52
... direct claims to your compliance . It is far from my purpose to recommend to you as a matter of principle , the sacrifice of your own reasonable wishes or interests , to the injustice or the caprice of others . Even in point of ...
... direct claims to your compliance . It is far from my purpose to recommend to you as a matter of principle , the sacrifice of your own reasonable wishes or interests , to the injustice or the caprice of others . Even in point of ...
Page 68
... direct you in many circumstances when , though it might be at the moment pleasanter , it would certainly not be so safe to be entirely free from superintendence . The tone of dictation employed in the exercise of the control above ...
... direct you in many circumstances when , though it might be at the moment pleasanter , it would certainly not be so safe to be entirely free from superintendence . The tone of dictation employed in the exercise of the control above ...
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Discipline, by the Author of Letters to My Unknown Friends Sydney Warburton No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 129 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
Page 57 - Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.