Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... comfort to the anxious and inquiring - Excessive haste to pub- lish the exercises of the anxious -- Conversing too much at a time - Urging to a hasty profession of religion - The use of technical language in religious conversation ...
... comfort to the anxious and inquiring - Excessive haste to pub- lish the exercises of the anxious -- Conversing too much at a time - Urging to a hasty profession of religion - The use of technical language in religious conversation ...
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... comfort of all around you ; and seeking , ha- bitually and supremely , to promote the best in- terest of mankind . By good manners , then , I beg you will un- derstand me to mean , those manners which christian purity and benevolence ...
... comfort of all around you ; and seeking , ha- bitually and supremely , to promote the best in- terest of mankind . By good manners , then , I beg you will un- derstand me to mean , those manners which christian purity and benevolence ...
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... at once , to their comfort and usefulness . Allow me , further , my dear young Friend , to remark , that if you wish to succeed in forming such manners as it is the object of E these pages to recommend , you must BEGIN EARLY and 51.
... at once , to their comfort and usefulness . Allow me , further , my dear young Friend , to remark , that if you wish to succeed in forming such manners as it is the object of E these pages to recommend , you must BEGIN EARLY and 51.
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... comforts and animates me in the undertaking . My office having placed me in the way of perceiving how greatly a body of precepts and suggestions on this subject is needed ; having never seen any thing which appeared to me to approach ...
... comforts and animates me in the undertaking . My office having placed me in the way of perceiving how greatly a body of precepts and suggestions on this subject is needed ; having never seen any thing which appeared to me to approach ...
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... comfort wounded in no small degree . Lay it down as a fixed principle , that you cannot possibly be in light , frivolous company , or where frivolous engagements are going on , even if there be no other mischief , without having your ...
... comfort wounded in no small degree . Lay it down as a fixed principle , that you cannot possibly be in light , frivolous company , or where frivolous engagements are going on , even if there be no other mischief , without having your ...
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Page 43 - But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth...
Page 252 - 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 90 - 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 377 - 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 ii - In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Page 58 - As long as we are bound, every hour, to "consider our ways," and, " whether we eat or drink, or whatever we do, to do all to the glory of God...
Page ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 448 - 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 90 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Page 44 - 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. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced.