Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... guard against their 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 ...
... guard against their 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 ...
Page 39
... guard , may be betrayed . I have known worthy men , who had so little knowledge of human nature , and so little sense of propriety , that they suffered themselves to be involved in angry contention with ostlers , with stage - drivers ...
... guard , may be betrayed . I have known worthy men , who had so little knowledge of human nature , and so little sense of propriety , that they suffered themselves to be involved in angry contention with ostlers , with stage - drivers ...
Page 41
... guard against unnecessary expen- diture is not only allowable , but is , doubtless , a christian duty . But there is a wide differ- ence between this , and conducting pecuniary expenditures , when we resolve to incur them , in a pitiful ...
... guard against unnecessary expen- diture is not only allowable , but is , doubtless , a christian duty . But there is a wide differ- ence between this , and conducting pecuniary expenditures , when we resolve to incur them , in a pitiful ...
Page 43
... guard against every thing , in speech or be- haviour , adapted unnecessarily to offend or to give uneasiness . It is opposed to every kind of harshness or undue severity , and forms a de- portment calculated to conciliate and attract ...
... guard against every thing , in speech or be- haviour , adapted unnecessarily to offend or to give uneasiness . It is opposed to every kind of harshness or undue severity , and forms a de- portment calculated to conciliate and attract ...
Page 46
... the tones and language of be- nevolent respect . Guard against reminding them continually , by your looks and expressions , that you consider them as beneath you . Go to their dwellings as a friend and comforter . Lis- ten 46.
... the tones and language of be- nevolent respect . Guard against reminding them continually , by your looks and expressions , that you consider them as beneath you . Go to their dwellings as a friend and comforter . Lis- ten 46.
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