Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... serious doubt as to this point , much as I respect your other endow- ments , and favourably as I augur of your capa- city for the work of publick instruction , I could B not in conscience encourage you to take an- other step.
... serious doubt as to this point , much as I respect your other endow- ments , and favourably as I augur of your capa- city for the work of publick instruction , I could B not in conscience encourage you to take an- other step.
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... serious discus → sion , they consider it as beneath their attention . Prejudices arising from such a source are , surely , unworthy of respect . As well might we allow the judgment of the profoundly il- literate man 16.
... serious discus → sion , they consider it as beneath their attention . Prejudices arising from such a source are , surely , unworthy of respect . As well might we allow the judgment of the profoundly il- literate man 16.
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... serious regard , because perverted and corrupt views of it have been sometimes taken . No man in his senses considers the use of our daily food as improper or unnecessary , because the votaries of sensual indulgence , have ransacked all ...
... serious regard , because perverted and corrupt views of it have been sometimes taken . No man in his senses considers the use of our daily food as improper or unnecessary , because the votaries of sensual indulgence , have ransacked all ...
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... serious , and set on high things . An air and manner opposed to levity ; opposed to that propensity to jesting , which is so often manifested by some who bear the sacred office ; opposed to what is grovelling ; opposed , in short , to ...
... serious , and set on high things . An air and manner opposed to levity ; opposed to that propensity to jesting , which is so often manifested by some who bear the sacred office ; opposed to what is grovelling ; opposed , in short , to ...
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... serious friend of cle- rical character . I will only add , that another characteristick and advantage of dignity in manners , is , that , when properly exercised , it tends to repress the risings , and repel the approaches of imperti ...
... serious friend of cle- rical character . I will only add , that another characteristick and advantage of dignity in manners , is , that , when properly exercised , it tends to repress the risings , and repel the approaches of imperti ...
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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.