Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N. J. |
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... harmonize with the ministerial character - Secular concerns should never
engross the thoughts nor the conversation - Investment of property so as to avoid
litigation , and the necessity of resorting to coercive measures to obtain just rights
- A ...
... harmonize with the ministerial character - Secular concerns should never
engross the thoughts nor the conversation - Investment of property so as to avoid
litigation , and the necessity of resorting to coercive measures to obtain just rights
- A ...
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There are persons, and even ministers of the gospel, who love to be singular;
who take pleasure and pride in being thought above the ordinary laws of social
intercourse: who, of course, violate those laws without ceremony; and make no ...
There are persons, and even ministers of the gospel, who love to be singular;
who take pleasure and pride in being thought above the ordinary laws of social
intercourse: who, of course, violate those laws without ceremony; and make no ...
Page 13
The miserable vanity of being thought independent, of setting at defiance public
sentiment, makes them entirely undervalue, for themselves, every code of rules of
which the object is to make them act like civilized people. And not content with ...
The miserable vanity of being thought independent, of setting at defiance public
sentiment, makes them entirely undervalue, for themselves, every code of rules of
which the object is to make them act like civilized people. And not content with ...
Page 25
... how small my title is to assume the office of teacher on such a subject . It is a
maxim in physical science , that a stream can never , in ordinary circumstances ,
rise course . higher than its fountain . If I thought this maxim 3 INTRODUCTORY .
... how small my title is to assume the office of teacher on such a subject . It is a
maxim in physical science , that a stream can never , in ordinary circumstances ,
rise course . higher than its fountain . If I thought this maxim 3 INTRODUCTORY .
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If I thought this maxim applied as rigidly to intellectual and moral culture , I should
lay down my pen in despair : or rather , I should not have dared to take it up for
the purpose of discussing a subject at once so delicate and difficult . But it does ...
If I thought this maxim applied as rigidly to intellectual and moral culture , I should
lay down my pen in despair : or rather , I should not have dared to take it up for
the purpose of discussing a subject at once so delicate and difficult . But it does ...
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Page 205 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 304 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Page 34 - That gentleness therefore, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value.
Page 362 - I may say, that the production of this work and most of my other writings, is owing; viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life...
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Page 73 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 74 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.
Page 167 - The more conscientious preachers, the Bible men, they who talk about principle, and doing to others as you would that they should do unto you,— how could they fail to recognize him, by far the greatest preacher of them all, with the Bible in his life and in his acts, the embodiment of principle, who actually carried out the golden rule?
Page 245 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Page 71 - A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth ; and a word spoken in due season, how good is it,
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| Title | Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N. J. Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform |
| Author | Samuel Miller |
| Contributor | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Old School). Board of Publication |
| Publisher | Presbyterian board of publication, 1852 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 12 May 2006 |
| ISBN | 0598342400, 9780598342409 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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