Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... influence and value , have always been found to estimate it most highly . I never met with a man of tolerable manners himself , who did not consider the subject as very important , and worthy of the diligent attention of every one who ...
... influence and value , have always been found to estimate it most highly . I never met with a man of tolerable manners himself , who did not consider the subject as very important , and worthy of the diligent attention of every one who ...
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... influence , even with the most discern- ing and virtuous , than is commonly imagined . To every human being , that which is intrinsi- cally excellent , appears doubly attractive when presented in a pleasing manner . Truth , even to ...
... influence , even with the most discern- ing and virtuous , than is commonly imagined . To every human being , that which is intrinsi- cally excellent , appears doubly attractive when presented in a pleasing manner . Truth , even to ...
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... influence in society , than that which arises from the sacredness of their office , the excel- lence of their character , and the attraction of their manners . It is their great business to win men to the love of the truth and of duty ...
... influence in society , than that which arises from the sacredness of their office , the excel- lence of their character , and the attraction of their manners . It is their great business to win men to the love of the truth and of duty ...
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... influence by a few instances of such indis- cretion . In very many cases solicitations for advice , while they are kindly received , and re- spectfully treated , ought to be denied al ́ogeth- er . In many other cases , all that ought to ...
... influence by a few instances of such indis- cretion . In very many cases solicitations for advice , while they are kindly received , and re- spectfully treated , ought to be denied al ́ogeth- er . In many other cases , all that ought to ...
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... influence on our accept- ance in social intercourse than the opposite of what I now recommend . To be at one time pointedly respectful and affable , and , at another , to the same individual , so cold and ungracious . as to surprise and ...
... influence on our accept- ance in social intercourse than the opposite of what I now recommend . To be at one time pointedly respectful and affable , and , at another , to the same individual , so cold and ungracious . as to surprise and ...
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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 416 - Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Page 450 - 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 471 - I have mentioned his treatises of Theology as distinct from his other productions, but the truth is that whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to Theology.
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 91 - In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin : but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
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Page 90 - Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Page 254 - 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.