Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... knowledge of the world is to be gained - Value of good manners - Peculiarly valuable to clergy- men - To attain them , we must begin early , and labour patiently page . 13-34 LETTER II . The question discussed , whether clerical man ...
... knowledge of the world is to be gained - Value of good manners - Peculiarly valuable to clergy- men - To attain them , we must begin early , and labour patiently page . 13-34 LETTER II . The question discussed , whether clerical man ...
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... knowledge of the world , and in conformity to those habits of propriety and delicacy which are commonly es- tablished in cultivated society , you manifest a deficiency rather remarkable : -a deficiency which has often excited surprise ...
... knowledge of the world , and in conformity to those habits of propriety and delicacy which are commonly es- tablished in cultivated society , you manifest a deficiency rather remarkable : -a deficiency which has often excited surprise ...
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... knowledge of the world , as well as knowledge of the Bible , and of other good books . That young man will find himself egre- giously deceived , who imagines that he can gain in his study all the information that is ne- cessary on this ...
... knowledge of the world , as well as knowledge of the Bible , and of other good books . That young man will find himself egre- giously deceived , who imagines that he can gain in his study all the information that is ne- cessary on this ...
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... knowledge of the world , necessarily implies conformity to it . All that it implies , and all that I would recommend , is such an ac- quaintance with the assemblage of facts in re- lation to this subject , as will enable you to adopt ...
... knowledge of the world , necessarily implies conformity to it . All that it implies , and all that I would recommend , is such an ac- quaintance with the assemblage of facts in re- lation to this subject , as will enable you to adopt ...
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... knowledge of the world , " no doubt is , that they have always passed along through society either with so much levity and inattention , or with so much hebetude of feel- ing , as to this particular point , that they have observed ...
... knowledge of the world , " no doubt is , that they have always passed along through society either with so much levity and inattention , or with so much hebetude of feel- ing , as to this particular point , that they have observed ...
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