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 , benevolent , amiable man ; respectfully attentive to the welfare and comfort of all around you ; and seeking , ha- bitually and supremely , to promote the best in- terest of mankind . By good ...
... appear , what you ought to be , a pious , benevolent , amiable man ; respectfully attentive to the welfare and comfort of all around you ; and seeking , ha- bitually and supremely , to promote the best in- terest of mankind . By good ...
Page 29
... appears doubly attractive when presented in a pleasing manner . Truth , even to those who know it to be truth , finds a more cordial welcome ; and duty , even among its most sincere and enlightened friends , commands a more ready ...
... appears doubly attractive when presented in a pleasing manner . Truth , even to those who know it to be truth , finds a more cordial welcome ; and duty , even among its most sincere and enlightened friends , commands a more ready ...
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... so perfectly fair , candid and ho- nourable , that the more they are scrutinized , the more perfectly correct and creditable they will appear . Never venture , in any case , or for the purpose of gratifying any person whatever , to do or ...
... so perfectly fair , candid and ho- nourable , that the more they are scrutinized , the more perfectly correct and creditable they will appear . Never venture , in any case , or for the purpose of gratifying any person whatever , to do or ...
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... appear to enjoy himself as if he were in the most convenient parlour ; and would , with a singular flicity of manner , place those whom he addressed just as much at ease , as if they were conversing with an equal . It was in re- ference ...
... appear to enjoy himself as if he were in the most convenient parlour ; and would , with a singular flicity of manner , place those whom he addressed just as much at ease , as if they were conversing with an equal . It was in re- ference ...
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... appear . Few things have a more unfriendly 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 ...
... appear . Few things have a more unfriendly 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 ...
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