A Voice to Youth: Addressed to Young Men and Young LadiesGrosh and Hutchinson, 1839 - 424 σελίδες |
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... action . To a mind seriously contemplating this fact , it is an inquiry of deep interest — who are to rise up and fill their places ? To whom are to be committed the invaluable interests of society ? who are to sustain its ...
... action . To a mind seriously contemplating this fact , it is an inquiry of deep interest — who are to rise up and fill their places ? To whom are to be committed the invaluable interests of society ? who are to sustain its ...
Σελίδα 22
... action , to determine the question , wheth- er their toils and blood shall prove unavailing , or whether the fruits of their labor shall descend to posterity . Upon the young of the present age , depends to a great degree , the solution ...
... action , to determine the question , wheth- er their toils and blood shall prove unavailing , or whether the fruits of their labor shall descend to posterity . Upon the young of the present age , depends to a great degree , the solution ...
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... action . The rising millions of this land , are destined , according to all human probability , to form by far the greatest nation that ever con- stituted an entire community of freemen , since the world began . To form the character of ...
... action . The rising millions of this land , are destined , according to all human probability , to form by far the greatest nation that ever con- stituted an entire community of freemen , since the world began . To form the character of ...
Σελίδα 37
... action is policy— their only study , the highest effort of their mental powers is , so to shape their course , as to float , like the empty bubble or the worthless weed , on the surface of the flowing tide of popularity . Nei- ther is ...
... action is policy— their only study , the highest effort of their mental powers is , so to shape their course , as to float , like the empty bubble or the worthless weed , on the surface of the flowing tide of popularity . Nei- ther is ...
Σελίδα 56
... action ? Reflect upon it . Observe how it degrades him— how contemptible it causes him to appear in the eyes of the generous , the just , the benevolent , and how unsatisfying must be his own reflections . Do you behold one at the bar ...
... action ? Reflect upon it . Observe how it degrades him— how contemptible it causes him to appear in the eyes of the generous , the just , the benevolent , and how unsatisfying must be his own reflections . Do you behold one at the bar ...
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Σελίδα 151 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Σελίδα 420 - ... and beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue, and to virtue, knowledge, and to knowledge, temperance, and to temperance, patience, and to patience, godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Σελίδα 103 - Which but to guess a Newton made immortal ?— " If so, how each sage atom laughs at me, " Who think a clod inferior to a man ! " If art to form, and counsel to conduct, " And that with greater far than human skill, " Resides not in each block, — a Godhead reigns...
Σελίδα 239 - Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity ; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower...
Σελίδα 404 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Σελίδα 329 - O, wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us an' foolish notion: what airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, and ev'n Devotion!
Σελίδα 157 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Σελίδα 263 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel, with a double relish.
Σελίδα 278 - Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go; lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul.
Σελίδα 48 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.