Sermons. Memoirs of Captain John Creichton.-v.11-15. LettersJ. Johnson, 1801 |
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... doth in a good one ? and to exert itself to better purpose , when it is to serve its own pride , or lust , or revenge , or any other passion , than when it is to serve God upon motives of the Gospel , and upon all the arguments that ...
... doth in a good one ? and to exert itself to better purpose , when it is to serve its own pride , or lust , or revenge , or any other passion , than when it is to serve God upon motives of the Gospel , and upon all the arguments that ...
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... doth require , would , in a short time , bring him into a nearer and more intimate acquaintance with himself . But when men , instead of this , do pass away months and years in a perfect slumber of the mind , without once awaking it ...
... doth require , would , in a short time , bring him into a nearer and more intimate acquaintance with himself . But when men , instead of this , do pass away months and years in a perfect slumber of the mind , without once awaking it ...
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... doth not set apart some portion of the day for that very purpose , but foolishly deferreth from one day to another , until his glass is almost run out , and he is called upon to give a mise- rable account of himself in the other world ...
... doth not set apart some portion of the day for that very purpose , but foolishly deferreth from one day to another , until his glass is almost run out , and he is called upon to give a mise- rable account of himself in the other world ...
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... doth not show it ! Then , as to the passions ; how noisy , how turbulent , and how tumultuous are they ! how easily are they stirred and set a going , how eager and hot in the pursuit , and what strange disorder and confusion do they ...
... doth not show it ! Then , as to the passions ; how noisy , how turbulent , and how tumultuous are they ! how easily are they stirred and set a going , how eager and hot in the pursuit , and what strange disorder and confusion do they ...
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Jonathan Swift. of ourselves doth certainly secure us from the sly and insinuating assaults of flattery . There is not in the world a baser and more hateful thing than flattery ; it proceedeth from so much falseness and insincerity in ...
Jonathan Swift. of ourselves doth certainly secure us from the sly and insinuating assaults of flattery . There is not in the world a baser and more hateful thing than flattery ; it proceedeth from so much falseness and insincerity in ...
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Page 144 - For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Page 104 - I die: * remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: * lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 86 - And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Page 67 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. ~] Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 223 - She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection.
Page 214 - GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
Page 52 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness ; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 31 - ... be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear.
Page 96 - Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil ; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
Page 85 - Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.