Discipline, by the author of Letters to my unknown friends1850 |
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Page 40
... refined nature would shrink from the meanness of pride ; but until that fearful or glorious hour , when we shall see sin in the light issuing from the throne of God , pride can never be viewed in its real hatefulness . Here below , your ...
... refined nature would shrink from the meanness of pride ; but until that fearful or glorious hour , when we shall see sin in the light issuing from the throne of God , pride can never be viewed in its real hatefulness . Here below , your ...
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... refined social habits these annoying remarks can only come before you in the form of vague insinua- tions . ) It is quite a secondary considera- tion that the fault of the persons who thus irritate you may be much lessened by your ...
... refined social habits these annoying remarks can only come before you in the form of vague insinua- tions . ) It is quite a secondary considera- tion that the fault of the persons who thus irritate you may be much lessened by your ...
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... refined mind that attaches the chief , if not the only , interest to those higher distinctions , of which external honours are but the type , will always be ready to offer due deference to a species of superiority towards which ...
... refined mind that attaches the chief , if not the only , interest to those higher distinctions , of which external honours are but the type , will always be ready to offer due deference to a species of superiority towards which ...
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... refined mind . To others , more coarsely constituted , the very same occurrences that would inflict pain on the vanity of the acutely sensitive , serve , on the contrary , as food for the gratification of theirs . But with such persons ...
... refined mind . To others , more coarsely constituted , the very same occurrences that would inflict pain on the vanity of the acutely sensitive , serve , on the contrary , as food for the gratification of theirs . But with such persons ...
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Sydney Warburton. altogether different and more refined class of characters that the discipline of daily life is at once more painful , and that pain more necessary . It is of them I ask , has your intercourse with society caused you any ...
Sydney Warburton. altogether different and more refined class of characters that the discipline of daily life is at once more painful , and that pain more necessary . It is of them I ask , has your intercourse with society caused you any ...
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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.