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Side 15
... leave them to ? " Agesilaus being asked- " What he thought most proper for boys to learn ? " answered , " What they ought to do when they come to be men . " Xenophon commended the Persians for the pru- dent education of children , who ...
... leave them to ? " Agesilaus being asked- " What he thought most proper for boys to learn ? " answered , " What they ought to do when they come to be men . " Xenophon commended the Persians for the pru- dent education of children , who ...
Side 29
... leave a back where it found an edge . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor . If you have cause to suspect the integrity of one with whom you must have dealings , take care to ...
... leave a back where it found an edge . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor . If you have cause to suspect the integrity of one with whom you must have dealings , take care to ...
Side 37
... leave , nor to be detained when He demandeth them . An ambitious man is the greatest enemy to himself of any in the world besides ; for he torments himself with hopes , desires , and cares , which he might avoid , if he would remit of ...
... leave , nor to be detained when He demandeth them . An ambitious man is the greatest enemy to himself of any in the world besides ; for he torments himself with hopes , desires , and cares , which he might avoid , if he would remit of ...
Side 56
... leaves us weaker than it found us . As the entire conquest of our passions appears so difficult a work to some , I would advise those who despair of it to attempt a less difficult task , and only do their endeavours to regulate them ...
... leaves us weaker than it found us . As the entire conquest of our passions appears so difficult a work to some , I would advise those who despair of it to attempt a less difficult task , and only do their endeavours to regulate them ...
Side 79
... leaving God to read in our hearts the feelings we cannot interpret into language . Henceforth , after quiet household petitions , ay , in the midst of earnest thanksgiving , we shall break again into the cry of our old anguish , " O ...
... leaving God to read in our hearts the feelings we cannot interpret into language . Henceforth , after quiet household petitions , ay , in the midst of earnest thanksgiving , we shall break again into the cry of our old anguish , " O ...
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affliction Antisthenes Aristotle atheist beauty better Bible blessing charity Christ Christian Cicero comfort command conscience contempt covetous Cyneas dangerous death desire divine doth duty Eight Illustrations enemy envy Epicurus esteemed eternal evil excellent faith favour fear Feltham flatterer folly fool fortune FRANCIS QUARLES friendship give glory God's grace greatest happy hath heart heaven HENRY WARD BEECHER honour hope human humility idle JAMES BLACKWOOD John Newton kind Kind-The Know thyself labour learning lest live Lord Lord Anson loseth Lovell's Court man's mercy mind miserable moral nature never ourselves passion Paternoster Row Plato pleasure POETICAL poor poverty praise prayer pride prudence reason receive religion repentance reputation revenge rich Scripture sorrow soul speak spirit suffer temper thee things thou thought tion true truth vanity vice virtue virtuous wealth William Monson wisdom wise words Xenophon young
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Side 17 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Side 126 - I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
Side 128 - Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and sea, And laden souls by thousands meekly stealing, Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.
Side 13 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Side 39 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Side 1 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Side 261 - Get thee hence, Satan : for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, Angels came and ministered unto him.
Side 131 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest ; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness ; and he that prays to God with an angry, that is, with a troubled and discomposed spirit, is like him...
Side 130 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.