Addresses to Young Men: By James Fordyce, D.D. ...T. Cadell, 1777 |
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Side 29
... follow this direction early , before their fenti- ments have had time to be perverted by their paffions , or warped by the world , are furely leaft expofed to deviation . In truth , I conceive that your con- duct , ADDRESS II . 29.
... follow this direction early , before their fenti- ments have had time to be perverted by their paffions , or warped by the world , are furely leaft expofed to deviation . In truth , I conceive that your con- duct , ADDRESS II . 29.
Side 30
... follow , as nearly as your nature and fituation will permit , that elevated ftandard of rectitude which your Creator has raised within you , and never to fink greatly beneath your origi- nal rank , and glorious deftination , as intel ...
... follow , as nearly as your nature and fituation will permit , that elevated ftandard of rectitude which your Creator has raised within you , and never to fink greatly beneath your origi- nal rank , and glorious deftination , as intel ...
Side 36
... follow , with honefty and fimplicity , the spontaneous uncorrupted dictates of the heart . The law which God has written there , appears in characters fo legible , and fo large , that , to use the language of a pro- phet , " he who runs ...
... follow , with honefty and fimplicity , the spontaneous uncorrupted dictates of the heart . The law which God has written there , appears in characters fo legible , and fo large , that , to use the language of a pro- phet , " he who runs ...
Side 64
... me explain my- felf on this laft point . The opinions of the greater part , re- fpecting the track they are to follow , may be chiefly ranked in two claffes . On the one hand you find little elfe but ce- remony 64 ADDRESS III .
... me explain my- felf on this laft point . The opinions of the greater part , re- fpecting the track they are to follow , may be chiefly ranked in two claffes . On the one hand you find little elfe but ce- remony 64 ADDRESS III .
Side 68
... Follow him every where , and ⚫ make him always fenfible that his peace and welfare depend on the veneration • he entertains for God's vicegerent . ' What think ye , Sirs ? Will the youth we have supposed , with those awful words ...
... Follow him every where , and ⚫ make him always fenfible that his peace and welfare depend on the veneration • he entertains for God's vicegerent . ' What think ye , Sirs ? Will the youth we have supposed , with those awful words ...
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Side 41 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Side 61 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil...
Side 178 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Side 109 - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Side 238 - But happy they ! the happiest of their kind ! Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning...
Side 238 - Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship...
Side 194 - And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
Side 82 - He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' center, and enjoy bright day: But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Side 193 - And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
Side 327 - The Hiftory of England, from the earlieft Accounts of Time to the Death of George the Second, adorned with Heads elegantly engraved. By Dr. Goldfmith. 4 vols.