The practical moral lesson book, 2. köide1871 |
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... youth . Socrates thought so , who made all his Philosophy subservient to morality . ' • Preface to Mason's Self - Knowledge . THE USE OF STORIES AND ANECDOTES IN MORAL TEACHING . ' Stories and anecdotes are very uninteresting , unless ...
... youth . Socrates thought so , who made all his Philosophy subservient to morality . ' • Preface to Mason's Self - Knowledge . THE USE OF STORIES AND ANECDOTES IN MORAL TEACHING . ' Stories and anecdotes are very uninteresting , unless ...
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... YOUTH . Dialogue between a father and his son , or aspirations after God natural to the young ON THE SOCIAL AFFECTIONS THE SOCIAL AFFECTIONS EXEMPLIFIED : — • 106 • IIO • III 112 113 • 115 116 Connubial affection Filial affection ...
... YOUTH . Dialogue between a father and his son , or aspirations after God natural to the young ON THE SOCIAL AFFECTIONS THE SOCIAL AFFECTIONS EXEMPLIFIED : — • 106 • IIO • III 112 113 • 115 116 Connubial affection Filial affection ...
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... youth and a prudent old man • 144 ON CHEERFULNESS ON HUMILITY · The violent husband and the tranquil wife · ON CAUTIOUSNESS The schoolboys who wanted cautiousness ON DISCRETION The Discretion of the Duke of Wellington ON MODERATION The ...
... youth and a prudent old man • 144 ON CHEERFULNESS ON HUMILITY · The violent husband and the tranquil wife · ON CAUTIOUSNESS The schoolboys who wanted cautiousness ON DISCRETION The Discretion of the Duke of Wellington ON MODERATION The ...
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... youth against these is very necessary , because their passions and appetites are strong , their reason and judgment weak . They are prone to pleasure and void of reflection . How , therefore , these young adventurers in life may best ...
... youth against these is very necessary , because their passions and appetites are strong , their reason and judgment weak . They are prone to pleasure and void of reflection . How , therefore , these young adventurers in life may best ...
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... youth , and a thousand to one but they will overpower him when a man . Thus nature is soon burnt up , and life pays for the deadly indulgence . SOLOMON'S APOSTASY AN INSTANCE OF UNCONTROLLED APPETITES . What led Solomon to apostasy ...
... youth , and a thousand to one but they will overpower him when a man . Thus nature is soon burnt up , and life pays for the deadly indulgence . SOLOMON'S APOSTASY AN INSTANCE OF UNCONTROLLED APPETITES . What led Solomon to apostasy ...
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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.