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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... hath excited the present attempt to render it more familiar to the minds of Christians . Mr. Baxter , indeed , has a treatise on this subject , en- titled , The Mischief of Self Ignorance , and the Benefit of Self Acquaintance . And I ...
... hath excited the present attempt to render it more familiar to the minds of Christians . Mr. Baxter , indeed , has a treatise on this subject , en- titled , The Mischief of Self Ignorance , and the Benefit of Self Acquaintance . And I ...
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... hath received in youth , it will naturally conclude , that there is no necessity to regard , or at least to lay any stress upon , what was never inculcated upon it as a matter of importance then . And so will grow up in a neglect or ...
... hath received in youth , it will naturally conclude , that there is no necessity to regard , or at least to lay any stress upon , what was never inculcated upon it as a matter of importance then . And so will grow up in a neglect or ...
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... hath such a weight of sense and wisdom in it as appears too great to be attributed to any man . " And this opinion , of its coming originally from Apollo himself , perhaps was the reason that it was written in golden capitals over the ...
... hath such a weight of sense and wisdom in it as appears too great to be attributed to any man . " And this opinion , of its coming originally from Apollo himself , perhaps was the reason that it was written in golden capitals over the ...
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... hath these three peculiar properties in it , which distinguish it from , and render it pref . erable to all other . - 1 . It is equally attainable by all . It requires no strength of memory , no force . of genius , no depth of ...
... hath these three peculiar properties in it , which distinguish it from , and render it pref . erable to all other . - 1 . It is equally attainable by all . It requires no strength of memory , no force . of genius , no depth of ...
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... hath he allotted me to act on the stage of human life ; where He , angels and men are spectators of my behaviour ? The part he hath given me to act here is , doubtless , a very impor- tant one ; because it is for eternity . And what is ...
... hath he allotted me to act on the stage of human life ; where He , angels and men are spectators of my behaviour ? The part he hath given me to act here is , doubtless , a very impor- tant one ; because it is for eternity . And what is ...
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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.