The Improvement of the MindJenks, Palmer & Company, 1833 - 234 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 4 - My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee, so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding ; if thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures ; then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
Σελίδα 96 - What shall we say then ? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound ? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein...
Σελίδα 199 - Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
Σελίδα 148 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, H|l ft" Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Σελίδα 104 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Σελίδα 198 - My Lord and my God. Jesus saith to Him : Because thou hast seen Me, Thomas, thou hast believed ; blessed are they who have not seen, and have believed.
Σελίδα 103 - He that answereth a matter before he heareth it it is folly and shame unto him.
Σελίδα xxiv - V. As you are not to fancy yourself a learned man because you are blessed with a ready wit ; so neither must you imagine that large and laborious reading, and a strong memory, can denominate you truly wise.
Σελίδα 122 - He allows that — the master of a family using proper rewards and gentle punishments towards his children, teaches them goodness, and by this help instructs them in a virtue which afterwards they practise upon other grounds, • and without thinking of a penalty or a bribe : and this, says he, is what we call a liberal education and a liberal service.
Σελίδα 100 - ... low, let some one person take a book, which may be agreeable to the whole company, and by common consent, let him read in it ten lines, or a paragraph or two, or a few pages, till some word or sentence gives an occasion for any of the company to offer a thought or two, relating to that subject. Interruption of the reader should be no blame ; for conversation is the business ; whether it be to confirm what the author says, or to improve it; to enlarge...