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... exhibit in their intercourse with the world ; and will induce them to listen seriously to any faults that may be suggested as attached to their conduct . Wise youth are willing to have their failings pointed out . And when a fault is ...
... exhibit in their intercourse with the world ; and will induce them to listen seriously to any faults that may be suggested as attached to their conduct . Wise youth are willing to have their failings pointed out . And when a fault is ...
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... exhibition , through words , sings or tokens , of kind and friendly emotions towards those in our presence . These ... exhibit that spirit of universal kindness and good will , which is the spirit of politeness , and without which ...
... exhibition , through words , sings or tokens , of kind and friendly emotions towards those in our presence . These ... exhibit that spirit of universal kindness and good will , which is the spirit of politeness , and without which ...
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... exhibits a low , gross and uncultivated mind . Every young man — I need not say , every young lady — who would be considered polite and well bred , will avoid such language as highly derogatory to genteel man- Refrain from low and ...
... exhibits a low , gross and uncultivated mind . Every young man — I need not say , every young lady — who would be considered polite and well bred , will avoid such language as highly derogatory to genteel man- Refrain from low and ...
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... exhibition of improper feelings ; and generally cause the disputants , and the whole company , to become unhappy ... exhibitions of anger or petulance . They are impolite and immodest — especially so in females . They throw you off your ...
... exhibition of improper feelings ; and generally cause the disputants , and the whole company , to become unhappy ... exhibitions of anger or petulance . They are impolite and immodest — especially so in females . They throw you off your ...
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... exhibits a feeling so mean and brutal Instead of basely indulging in the ridicule of the poor , you should be inclined ... exhibit towards people in low circumstances as to prop- erty , none but emotions of a kind , humane and generous ...
... exhibits a feeling so mean and brutal Instead of basely indulging in the ridicule of the poor , you should be inclined ... exhibit towards people in low circumstances as to prop- erty , none but emotions of a kind , humane and generous ...
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A Voice to Youth, Addressed to Young Men and Young Ladies John Mather 1805-1880 [From Ol Austin No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 151 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 420 - ... and beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue, and to virtue, knowledge, and to knowledge, temperance, and to temperance, patience, and to patience, godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 103 - Which but to guess a Newton made immortal ?— " If so, how each sage atom laughs at me, " Who think a clod inferior to a man ! " If art to form, and counsel to conduct, " And that with greater far than human skill, " Resides not in each block, — a Godhead reigns...
Page 239 - Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity ; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower...
Page 404 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Page 329 - O, wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us an' foolish notion: what airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, and ev'n Devotion!
Page 157 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 263 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel, with a double relish.
Page 278 - Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go; lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul.
Page 48 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.