The practical moral lesson book, 2. köide1871 |
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Page 12
... desire of imitating fashionable absur- dity . They are not all criminal , but they all have a tendency to debase us , and by some of them men have made themselves disagreeable , useless , contemptible , and even a nuisance to society ...
... desire of imitating fashionable absur- dity . They are not all criminal , but they all have a tendency to debase us , and by some of them men have made themselves disagreeable , useless , contemptible , and even a nuisance to society ...
Page 13
... desire ! Oh , it is a mean and shameful thing to be a slave to our taste , and to let this brutal appetite subdue reason and govern a man . But if appetites are gratified in a child , they will grow strong in the years of youth , and a ...
... desire ! Oh , it is a mean and shameful thing to be a slave to our taste , and to let this brutal appetite subdue reason and govern a man . But if appetites are gratified in a child , they will grow strong in the years of youth , and a ...
Page 23
... desires which those who felt them would have been themselves ashamed to utter . In order to gain and preserve a necessary power over our thoughts , and to improve them , we should often make them the subject of a severe and honest ...
... desires which those who felt them would have been themselves ashamed to utter . In order to gain and preserve a necessary power over our thoughts , and to improve them , we should often make them the subject of a severe and honest ...
Page 37
... desires with anger and tears , or self - restraint and smiles ; whether to associate knowledge , ap- plication , and useful labour with ideas of pain , hardship , and disgrace , or with ideas of pleasure and self - satisfaction ...
... desires with anger and tears , or self - restraint and smiles ; whether to associate knowledge , ap- plication , and useful labour with ideas of pain , hardship , and disgrace , or with ideas of pleasure and self - satisfaction ...
Page 59
... desire or wish for anything , or show an aversion to it , inquire what is the reason of their desire or aversion ; when they have done anything of their own will , ask them the reason why they On Reason and Reasoning . 59.
... desire or wish for anything , or show an aversion to it , inquire what is the reason of their desire or aversion ; when they have done anything of their own will , ask them the reason why they On Reason and Reasoning . 59.
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Popular passages
Page 232 - God, but the doers of the law shall be justified : for when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 132 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts...
Page 161 - There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there; There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair.
Page 10 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge ! What is a man, If his chief good, and market of his time, Be but to sleep, and feed ? a beast, no more.
Page 234 - LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth ? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved ; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction : they have made their faces harder than a rock ; they have refused to return.
Page 236 - And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said ; Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 232 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up : for God is able to make him stand.
Page 153 - Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 209 - I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.
Page 217 - Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me ; and lead me in the way everlasting.