Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N. J. |
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... appear , what you ought to be , a pious , benevo- lent , amiable man ; respectfully attentive to the wel- fare and comfort of all around you ; and seeking , habitually and supremely , to promote the best interest of mankind . — By good ...
... appear , what you ought to be , a pious , benevo- lent , amiable man ; respectfully attentive to the wel- fare and comfort of all around you ; and seeking , habitually and supremely , to promote the best interest of mankind . — By good ...
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... appears doubly attractive when presented in a pleasing manner . Fruth , even to those who know it to be truth , finds a more cor- dial welcome ; and duty , even among its most sincere and enlightened friends , commands a more ready ...
... appears doubly attractive when presented in a pleasing manner . Fruth , even to those who know it to be truth , finds a more cor- dial welcome ; and duty , even among its most sincere and enlightened friends , commands a more ready ...
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... appear- ance . Even dining or tea parties , in which any thing like the reign of levity , and especially of revelry , is anticipated , ought to be invariably shunned by an ambassador of Christ . That you will not allow yourself to be ...
... appear- ance . Even dining or tea parties , in which any thing like the reign of levity , and especially of revelry , is anticipated , ought to be invariably shunned by an ambassador of Christ . That you will not allow yourself to be ...
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... appear . " Never venture , in any case , or for the purpose of gratifying any person whatever , to do or say that which , if it should become fully known to the pub- lic , would place your character in an undesirable point of light ...
... appear . " Never venture , in any case , or for the purpose of gratifying any person whatever , to do or say that which , if it should become fully known to the pub- lic , would place your character in an undesirable point of light ...
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... appear to enjoy himself as if he were in the most convenient parlour ; and would , with a singular feli- city of manner , place those whom he addressed just as much at ease , as if they were conversing with an - equal . It was in ...
... appear to enjoy himself as if he were in the most convenient parlour ; and would , with a singular feli- city of manner , place those whom he addressed just as much at ease , as if they were conversing with an - equal . It was in ...
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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...
Page 73 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
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,