The Christian Father's Present to His Children, Volumen2Jonathan Leavitt, 1827 |
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... gain some new idea . Your first object of existence , as I have already stated , should be the salvation of your soul : the next , the benefit of your fellow - crea- tures ; and then comes the improvement of your mind . * CHAPTER XV ...
... gain some new idea . Your first object of existence , as I have already stated , should be the salvation of your soul : the next , the benefit of your fellow - crea- tures ; and then comes the improvement of your mind . * CHAPTER XV ...
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... gain and honour of success . What anger and ill - will are often produced in the mind of the unsuccessful party . Even the rules of decorum , observed in polished society , are not sufficient , in many cases , to restrain the passionate ...
... gain and honour of success . What anger and ill - will are often produced in the mind of the unsuccessful party . Even the rules of decorum , observed in polished society , are not sufficient , in many cases , to restrain the passionate ...
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... gain , is led forward by the hope of still greater gain , while the loser plunges deeper and deeper in ruin , with the delusive expectation of retrieving his lost fortune . How many have ruined themselves and their families for ever by ...
... gain , is led forward by the hope of still greater gain , while the loser plunges deeper and deeper in ruin , with the delusive expectation of retrieving his lost fortune . How many have ruined themselves and their families for ever by ...
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... gain a shilling admis- sion to the gallery . " Take warning then , and have nothing to do with the theatre . Avoid it as one of the ave- nues to the broad road which leadeth to destruc- tion . Run not with the multitude to do evil . Be ...
... gain a shilling admis- sion to the gallery . " Take warning then , and have nothing to do with the theatre . Avoid it as one of the ave- nues to the broad road which leadeth to destruc- tion . Run not with the multitude to do evil . Be ...
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... gains the elements of his future excellence about this period . So it is in poetry , painting , learning . Before this , the first decisive and unequivocal traits of genius sometimes appear , and even after this , they are sometimes ...
... gains the elements of his future excellence about this period . So it is in poetry , painting , learning . Before this , the first decisive and unequivocal traits of genius sometimes appear , and even after this , they are sometimes ...
Términos y frases comunes
acquire admiration amidst amongst amusements beauty bible blessed bliss character chief end Christ Christian church comfort complaisance connexion daughters dear children death delight disposition dread duty earth Esau eternal evanescent evil excellence existence faith fame father feelings felicity fellowship female friends give glory gospel habit happiness hath heart heaven Henry Martyn Hittite holy honour hope human important improvement influence judgement knowledge lect lence live look Lord mankind marriage means means of grace ment mental mind miserable modesty moral mother myste nature neglect ness never nexion object parents passions philosophy of education piety pious pleasure principles prudence pursuits racter rational recreation religion religious rich Saladin salvation scene sion society sorrow soul spirit sublime taste theatre thing thou tion tradesman truth vice virtue wisdom young persons youth
Pasajes populares
Página 51 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 24 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Página 68 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Página 117 - O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord...
Página 69 - Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
Página 153 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Página 67 - She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 126 - Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father which is in heaven ; but whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Página 44 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Página 153 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.