Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... ought never to marry - Pastors ought to marry- Too much haste in marrying - Where marriage is not intended great care should be taken that expectations of that nature be not excited- Match - makers to be avoided - Great importance of A 3 ...
... ought never to marry - Pastors ought to marry- Too much haste in marrying - Where marriage is not intended great care should be taken that expectations of that nature be not excited- Match - makers to be avoided - Great importance of A 3 ...
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... nature becoming the pro- fession - Clergymen should not suffer themselves to be hurried -- To be avoided only by great dili- gence , and the maintenance of order in their affairs -- Improper concern about popularity - In- difference to ...
... nature becoming the pro- fession - Clergymen should not suffer themselves to be hurried -- To be avoided only by great dili- gence , and the maintenance of order in their affairs -- Improper concern about popularity - In- difference to ...
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... nature , to hear of it from any other quarter . I have known , in the course of my life , several excel- lent men , whose manners were , in various re- spects , so extremely faulty , and even disgusting , that they were objects of ...
... nature , to hear of it from any other quarter . I have known , in the course of my life , several excel- lent men , whose manners were , in various re- spects , so extremely faulty , and even disgusting , that they were objects of ...
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... nature is capable . So much for the general principle . Cultivate the christian temper , and you will always , in precisely the same proportion , lay the best and the only true foundation for the manners which I recommend . But if you ...
... nature is capable . So much for the general principle . Cultivate the christian temper , and you will always , in precisely the same proportion , lay the best and the only true foundation for the manners which I recommend . But if you ...
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... nature , are all so many obstacles to the faithful discharge of these duties . It happens , moreover , that the application of chris- tian principle to the various departments of so- cial intercourse , in all their interesting and de ...
... nature , are all so many obstacles to the faithful discharge of these duties . It happens , moreover , that the application of chris- tian principle to the various departments of so- cial intercourse , in all their interesting and de ...
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