| Charles Buck - Theology - 1815 - 546 pages
...manners, always to assent and to comply, is the very worst maxim we can adopt. True gentleness, therefore, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...is, indeed, not only consistent with a firm mind, ljut it necessa'rily requires a manly spirit and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...various occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness therefore which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just.right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It •«'Js indeed not only consistent... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...diftinguifhed from the mean fpirit of cowards, and the fawning aifent of fycophants. It renounces no juft right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only confiftent with a firm mind, but it neceffatily requires a manly fpirit, and a fixed principle, in... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...various occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness therefore which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. 'It stands... | |
| Hugh Blair - Sermons, English - 1818 - 478 pages
...various occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness, therefore which belongs to virtue, is .to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from feat. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 488 pages
...occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness, therefore, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. It stands... | |
| Hugh Blair - Sermons - 1820 - 540 pages
...occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness, therefore, which belongs to virtue, is. to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in^rder to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage... | |
| Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...occasions, even though we should stand alone. 3. That gentleness therefore which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is iodeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, aod a fixed... | |
| Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...various occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness therefore, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It isindeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed... | |
| Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...various occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness therefore which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...right from fear. It gives up no important truth from llattery. It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit,-... | |
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