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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... soon discover to proceed from the same vanity I before suspected myself to be guilty of . And the world will judge , that I speak it rather to do myself honour than you . However , I am beforehand with them in the observation . And that ...
... soon discover to proceed from the same vanity I before suspected myself to be guilty of . And the world will judge , that I speak it rather to do myself honour than you . However , I am beforehand with them in the observation . And that ...
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... soon re- turns into it again . This brings to my mind another thing , for which , I am sure , I have great reason to claim the reader's indul- gence ; and that is , the free use I have made of some of the ancient heathen writers , * in ...
... soon re- turns into it again . This brings to my mind another thing , for which , I am sure , I have great reason to claim the reader's indul- gence ; and that is , the free use I have made of some of the ancient heathen writers , * in ...
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... soon sensible and ashamed of ; but perhaps is never able to conquer as long as he lives , for want of that as- sistance which he ought to have received in his educa- tion . For a wrong education is one of those three things to which it ...
... soon sensible and ashamed of ; but perhaps is never able to conquer as long as he lives , for want of that as- sistance which he ought to have received in his educa- tion . For a wrong education is one of those three things to which it ...
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... soon should we find a happy alteration in the manners and spirits of men ! -But the misery of it is , men will not think ; will not employ their thoughts in good earnest , about the things which most of all deserve and demand them . By ...
... soon should we find a happy alteration in the manners and spirits of men ! -But the misery of it is , men will not think ; will not employ their thoughts in good earnest , about the things which most of all deserve and demand them . By ...
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... soon be , from what we now are ! Let us look forwards , then , and frequently glance our thoughts towards death ; though they cannot penetrate the darkness of that passage , or reach the state behind it . That lies veiled from the eyes ...
... soon be , from what we now are ! Let us look forwards , then , and frequently glance our thoughts towards death ; though they cannot penetrate the darkness of that passage , or reach the state behind it . That lies veiled from the eyes ...
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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.