A Treatise on Self Knowledge: Showing the Nature and Benefit of that Important Science, and the Way to Attain It: Intermixed with Various Reflections and Observations on Human NatureJames Loring, 1819 - 178 sidor |
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Sida viii
... attended to in the method of education , it might probably be conducted in a manner much more to the advantage of our youth than it ordinarily is . For , as Dr. Fuller observes , that pains we take in books or arts , which treat of ...
... attended to in the method of education , it might probably be conducted in a manner much more to the advantage of our youth than it ordinarily is . For , as Dr. Fuller observes , that pains we take in books or arts , which treat of ...
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... attend , if we would attain the true knowledge of ourselves . We are his children by creation ; in which respect he is truly our father . But now , O LORD , thou art our father , we are the clay , and thou our potter ; and we all are ...
... attend , if we would attain the true knowledge of ourselves . We are his children by creation ; in which respect he is truly our father . But now , O LORD , thou art our father , we are the clay , and thou our potter ; and we all are ...
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... attended to , if we would be sensible of the duty and obligations we owe to Christ as the great REDEEMER ; in which character he appears for * Romans iii . 10 , 12 . the relief and recovery of mankind under this their universal Chap ...
... attended to , if we would be sensible of the duty and obligations we owe to Christ as the great REDEEMER ; in which character he appears for * Romans iii . 10 , 12 . the relief and recovery of mankind under this their universal Chap ...
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... attend to the particular rank and station in life in which Providence hath pla- ced him ; and what is the duty and decorum of that station ; what part is given him to act ; what character to maintain , and with what decency and ...
... attend to the particular rank and station in life in which Providence hath pla- ced him ; and what is the duty and decorum of that station ; what part is given him to act ; what character to maintain , and with what decency and ...
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... attend to it ; does not know what becomes it ; much less , if he affect to act another , which nature never designed him . It is always self ignorance that leads a man to act out of character . Is it a mean and low station of life thou ...
... attend to it ; does not know what becomes it ; much less , if he affect to act another , which nature never designed him . It is always self ignorance that leads a man to act out of character . Is it a mean and low station of life thou ...
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Sida 100 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, "Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye," and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Sida 27 - But now, O Lord, thou art our father ; We are the clay, and thou our potter; And we all are the work of thy hand.
Sida 63 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature ; because I have refused him : for the LORD seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Sida ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Sida 31 - As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Sida 134 - ... diminution of the other. Plutarch has written an essay on the benefits which a man may receive from his enemies ; and, among the good fruits of enmity, mentions this in particular, that by the reproaches which it casts upon us we see the worst side of ourselves, and open our eyes to several blemishes and defects in our lives and conversations which we should not have observed without the help of such ill-natured monitors.
Sida 66 - Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Sida 116 - DISTRUST, and darkness of a future state, Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate. Death, in itself, is nothing ; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
Sida 122 - That before we betake ourselves to rest, we renew and examine all the passages of the day, that we may have the comfort of what we have done aright, and may redress what we find to have been amiss, and make the shipwrecks of one day be as marks to direct our course in another.
Sida 41 - A wise man hath his foibles, as well as a fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself, and concealed from the world ; the foibles of the other are known to the world, and concealed from himself.