Sermons on Education: On Reflection, on the Greatness of God in the Works of Nature and in the Government of the World, on Charity, and on Various Other Topics;Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - Education |
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... promoting what they term the benefit of their children , and in fact they thus do contribute much to their welfare . May we not therefore have reafon to hope that even this might be done in a still more profitable manner , if men had ...
... promoting what they term the benefit of their children , and in fact they thus do contribute much to their welfare . May we not therefore have reafon to hope that even this might be done in a still more profitable manner , if men had ...
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... promotes and facilitates the latter , promotes and facilitates the former likewife ; and certainly neither infidelity nor vice would commit fuch ravages among mankind , if more pains had been bestowed in their infancy and childhood on ...
... promotes and facilitates the latter , promotes and facilitates the former likewife ; and certainly neither infidelity nor vice would commit fuch ravages among mankind , if more pains had been bestowed in their infancy and childhood on ...
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... promote or retard its progrefs , to lend our own ex- perience to one ftill unexperienced , and our force to one yet impotent , to put afide the impediments he meets with in his way , to warn him of the mistakes we ourselves have ...
... promote or retard its progrefs , to lend our own ex- perience to one ftill unexperienced , and our force to one yet impotent , to put afide the impediments he meets with in his way , to warn him of the mistakes we ourselves have ...
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... promote his own real happiness and that of other men . This however he can no otherwife do than by willingly and faithfully following the light of his understanding ; by not only thinking and judging agreeably to truth , but likewife by ...
... promote his own real happiness and that of other men . This however he can no otherwife do than by willingly and faithfully following the light of his understanding ; by not only thinking and judging agreeably to truth , but likewife by ...
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... to the virtues or to the vices . To excite and to promote the former and to prevent the latter , is the principal business of 13 worthy worthy parents and honeft tutors . Great vivacity , fenfibility 48 ON THE FORMATION OF.
... to the virtues or to the vices . To excite and to promote the former and to prevent the latter , is the principal business of 13 worthy worthy parents and honeft tutors . Great vivacity , fenfibility 48 ON THE FORMATION OF.
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Page viii - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 424 - Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 506 - But I fay unto you, Love your enemies, blefs them that curfe you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which defpitefully ufe you, and perfecute you...
Page vi - I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Page 363 - And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well : he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Page x - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour ; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 322 - For as the heavens are higher than the earth, fo are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Page 345 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance...
Page 352 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Page 496 - That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven ; for he maketh his fun to rife on the evil and on the good, and fendeth rain on the juft, and on the unjuft.