Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... friends as well as ene nies - A forward , ob- trusive spirit toward strangers , when travelling , and a monkish impenetrable reserve , to be equal- ly avoided - Ministers should be ever ready to perform the appropriate duties of ...
... friends as well as ene nies - A forward , ob- trusive spirit toward strangers , when travelling , and a monkish impenetrable reserve , to be equal- ly avoided - Ministers should be ever ready to perform the appropriate duties of ...
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... FRIEND , You are soon , with the permission of Pro- vidence , to enter the pulpit , and to engage in the active duties of that profession , which , how- ever undervalued by the worldly and the un- believing , cannot fail of being ...
... FRIEND , You are soon , with the permission of Pro- vidence , to enter the pulpit , and to engage in the active duties of that profession , which , how- ever undervalued by the worldly and the un- believing , cannot fail of being ...
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... friends may have felt in contemplating your respectable talents , your theological acquisitions , and your laudable zeal for the advancement of the Re- deemer's kingdom ; they have been often pained to observe that , in what is called ...
... friends may have felt in contemplating your respectable talents , your theological acquisitions , and your laudable zeal for the advancement of the Re- deemer's kingdom ; they have been often pained to observe that , in what is called ...
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... friends generally agree in noticing , must have some reality . Recollect , too , that this is a sub ject on which none but very intimate friends will ever venture to address you . If you were to make a blunder in conversation , as to a ...
... friends generally agree in noticing , must have some reality . Recollect , too , that this is a sub ject on which none but very intimate friends will ever venture to address you . If you were to make a blunder in conversation , as to a ...
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... friends had not been faithful enough to apprise them of that which all who conversed with them saw and deplored ; and which a little attention and resolution , es- pecially if applied in early life , might have ef- fectually corrected ...
... friends had not been faithful enough to apprise them of that which all who conversed with them saw and deplored ; and which a little attention and resolution , es- pecially if applied in early life , might have ef- fectually corrected ...
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