Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the Theological Seminary, at Princeton, N.J.G. & C. Carvill, 1827 - 476 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα v
... .. Mode of sitting in company .... Importance of sit- ting erectly .... Pulling at articles of furniture .... Guard- ing against slovenly habits of every kind 13-31 32--53 · 54--78 LETTER IV . On conversation .... Importance of the subject.
... .. Mode of sitting in company .... Importance of sit- ting erectly .... Pulling at articles of furniture .... Guard- ing against slovenly habits of every kind 13-31 32--53 · 54--78 LETTER IV . On conversation .... Importance of the subject.
Σελίδα xi
... guard against their friends as well as enemies .... A for- ward , obtrusive spirit toward strangers in travelling .... A monkish impenetrable reserve .... Ministers should be ever ready to perform the appropriate duties of religion ...
... guard against their friends as well as enemies .... A for- ward , obtrusive spirit toward strangers in travelling .... A monkish impenetrable reserve .... Ministers should be ever ready to perform the appropriate duties of religion ...
Σελίδα 35
... guard , may be betrayed . I have known worthy men , who had so little know- ledge of human nature , and so little sense of propri- ety , that they suffered themselves to be involved in angry contention with ostlers , with stage ...
... guard , may be betrayed . I have known worthy men , who had so little know- ledge of human nature , and so little sense of propri- ety , that they suffered themselves to be involved in angry contention with ostlers , with stage ...
Σελίδα 37
... guard against unnecessary expenditure is not only allowable , but is , doubtless , a christian duty . But there is a wide difference between this , and conducting pecuniary expendi- tures , when we resolve to incur them , in a pitiful ...
... guard against unnecessary expenditure is not only allowable , but is , doubtless , a christian duty . But there is a wide difference between this , and conducting pecuniary expendi- tures , when we resolve to incur them , in a pitiful ...
Σελίδα 39
... guard against every thing , in speech or behaviour , adapted unne- cessarily to offend or to give uneasiness . It is op- posed to every kind of harshness or undue severity , and forms a deportment calculated to conciliate and attract ...
... guard against every thing , in speech or behaviour , adapted unne- cessarily to offend or to give uneasiness . It is op- posed to every kind of harshness or undue severity , and forms a deportment calculated to conciliate and attract ...
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Σελίδα 227 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Σελίδα 336 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Σελίδα iv - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Σελίδα 368 - Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
Σελίδα 399 - I may say, that the production of this work and most of my other writings, is owing; viz. that the difference between rising at five and at seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man's life...
Σελίδα 40 - It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. ( It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced.
Σελίδα iv - And also to the act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Σελίδα 81 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Σελίδα 81 - Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Σελίδα 196 - Deeply impressed with a sense of the importance of improving in knowledge, prudence, and piety, in my preparation for the Gospel Ministry, I solemnly promise, in a reliance on divine grace, that I will faithfully and diligently attend on all the instructions of this Seminary, and that I will conscientiously and vigilantly observe all the rules and regulations specified in the plan for its instruction and government, so far as the same relate to the students; and that I will obey all the lawful requisitions,...