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... ness , Self - indulgence , Worldliness . These have been selected , as most likely to be the leading faults of the characters to whom the following pages are principally addressed . - 11 FIRST DAY . SELF - WILL . ONE of 10 INTRODUCTION .
... ness , Self - indulgence , Worldliness . These have been selected , as most likely to be the leading faults of the characters to whom the following pages are principally addressed . - 11 FIRST DAY . SELF - WILL . ONE of 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... ness , injustice , it is only too probably the reaction of your own errors . Cease , then , your murmurs against that portion of the burden of the daily cross which your own sin has wrought for you , and instead of selfish complaining ...
... ness , injustice , it is only too probably the reaction of your own errors . Cease , then , your murmurs against that portion of the burden of the daily cross which your own sin has wrought for you , and instead of selfish complaining ...
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... ness of mind , independence of spirit , & c . ; and to you it will probably never appear in the form of a weakness or a meanness , for then it would lose its power to tempt . It is not , therefore , to what you know to have been wrong ...
... ness of mind , independence of spirit , & c . ; and to you it will probably never appear in the form of a weakness or a meanness , for then it would lose its power to tempt . It is not , therefore , to what you know to have been wrong ...
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... ness . " And when , the discipline of the day being over , you kneel before God at the evening hour , let the spirit of penitence and self - abasement be ever stronger than that of confidence and consciousness of well - doing . For any ...
... ness . " And when , the discipline of the day being over , you kneel before God at the evening hour , let the spirit of penitence and self - abasement be ever stronger than that of confidence and consciousness of well - doing . For any ...
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... ness and self - examination as to the plea- sures you expect from it . If they should prove to be the display of your own per- sonal or intellectual advantages , and the homage rendered them by others , then the scene on which you are ...
... ness and self - examination as to the plea- sures you expect from it . If they should prove to be the display of your own per- sonal or intellectual advantages , and the homage rendered them by others , then the scene on which you are ...
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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.
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| Title | Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends |
| Author | Sydney Warburton |
| Edition | 2 |
| Published | 1850 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2006 |
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