Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J. |
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... wishes to be acceptable in well - bred society ; it also embraces much , very much which no christian can regard but with unmingled abhorrence . It has been , indeed , not unjustly said , by some one , that the " Let- ters to his Son ...
... wishes to be acceptable in well - bred society ; it also embraces much , very much which no christian can regard but with unmingled abhorrence . It has been , indeed , not unjustly said , by some one , that the " Let- ters to his Son ...
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... wish for any thing of this kind . My object is by no means to help you to weave a " professional cloak , " for the purpose of covering mental imbecility , cor- rupt practice , or sinister design . It is not to ho- -- recommend a buckram ...
... wish for any thing of this kind . My object is by no means to help you to weave a " professional cloak , " for the purpose of covering mental imbecility , cor- rupt practice , or sinister design . It is not to ho- -- recommend a buckram ...
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... wish to reduce this great principle to practice , two things are to be remembered . The first is , that , as the growth of christian principle , in the individual heart , is a gradual process ; as it is by no means a spontaneous af ...
... wish to reduce this great principle to practice , two things are to be remembered . The first is , that , as the growth of christian principle , in the individual heart , is a gradual process ; as it is by no means a spontaneous af ...
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... at once , to their comfort and usefulness . Allow me , further , my dear young Friend , to remark , that if you wish to succeed in forming such manners as it is the object of E on these pages to recommend , you must BEGIN EARLY 31.
... at once , to their comfort and usefulness . Allow me , further , my dear young Friend , to remark , that if you wish to succeed in forming such manners as it is the object of E on these pages to recommend , you must BEGIN EARLY 31.
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... wish to inculcate , may be impaired by various little infelicities of deportment into which those who are not prudently and delicately on their guard , may be betrayed . I have known worthy men , who had so little knowledge of human ...
... wish to inculcate , may be impaired by various little infelicities of deportment into which those who are not prudently and delicately on their guard , may be betrayed . I have known worthy men , who had so little knowledge of human ...
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