Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... perhaps you may be un- willing to believe that the fact is so , even when assured of it . But let not self - flattery blind you to the truth , however mortifying . There is real need of your directing particular attention to this point ...
... perhaps you may be un- willing to believe that the fact is so , even when assured of it . But let not self - flattery blind you to the truth , however mortifying . There is real need of your directing particular attention to this point ...
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... perhaps , there is no subject which , on a variety of accounts , requires to be exhibited in more minute detail , or urged with more constant re- iteration , than this . Still no popular , adequate treatise on this subject , so far as I ...
... perhaps , there is no subject which , on a variety of accounts , requires to be exhibited in more minute detail , or urged with more constant re- iteration , than this . Still no popular , adequate treatise on this subject , so far as I ...
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... perhaps you will inquire , rather too small to engage the at- tention of one , whose time and talents ought to be occupied about much more exalted things ? That a clergyman ought not , and , consistently with his usefulness , cannot ...
... perhaps you will inquire , rather too small to engage the at- tention of one , whose time and talents ought to be occupied about much more exalted things ? That a clergyman ought not , and , consistently with his usefulness , cannot ...
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... perhaps , less talent or virtue , is lauded to excess ; are among the most notorious facts in human life ; and that not in the circles of the ignorant and unprincipled only ; but also in those of the most estimable portions of man- kind ...
... perhaps , less talent or virtue , is lauded to excess ; are among the most notorious facts in human life ; and that not in the circles of the ignorant and unprincipled only ; but also in those of the most estimable portions of man- kind ...
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... perhaps , do more harm than good . Many a minister of Christ , in these circumstances , has been involved in conflicts , in the course of which his feelings have been lacerated , his dignity lowered , and his comfort wounded in no small ...
... perhaps , do more harm than good . Many a minister of Christ , in these circumstances , has been involved in conflicts , in the course of which his feelings have been lacerated , his dignity lowered , and his comfort wounded in no small ...
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