Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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Page 17
... position and of the duty of submission to authority than many instances of sullen and unwill- ing obedience . And those who remon- strate the most firmly , and oppose the most steadily , will be those who will sub- mit with the best ...
... position and of the duty of submission to authority than many instances of sullen and unwill- ing obedience . And those who remon- strate the most firmly , and oppose the most steadily , will be those who will sub- mit with the best ...
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... positions ; and if they should ever be called to them , the best preparation for a decision in conformity with God's will , must be the constant and habitual exercise of their spirit in the duty of submission . For thus when the duty ...
... positions ; and if they should ever be called to them , the best preparation for a decision in conformity with God's will , must be the constant and habitual exercise of their spirit in the duty of submission . For thus when the duty ...
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... position , the duty to obey , will be a sure preventive to those easily excited feelings of self - will which , in the ill - regulated mind , blaze up at any approach to a direct assertion of authority . By feelings such as these , how ...
... position , the duty to obey , will be a sure preventive to those easily excited feelings of self - will which , in the ill - regulated mind , blaze up at any approach to a direct assertion of authority . By feelings such as these , how ...
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... 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 never likely even to perceive the duty afterwards ; while the established indul- gence ...
... 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 never likely even to perceive the duty afterwards ; while the established indul- gence ...
Page 51
... position who pay them the due respect their sym- bolical nature deserves ; and those who view social inequality as a necessity im- pressed by God on the universal constitu- tion of things , will acknowledge His directing hand by the ...
... position who pay them the due respect their sym- bolical nature deserves ; and those who view social inequality as a necessity im- pressed by God on the universal constitu- tion of things , will acknowledge His directing hand by the ...
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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.