The Improvement of the Mind: To which is Added, a Discourse on the Education of Children and YouthJ. Walker and Company, 1814 - 486 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xiv
... common life , pointing out the fairest and most fruitful spots , as well as the rocks , and wilder- nesses , and faithless morasses of the country . But I feel age advancing upon me ; and my health is insuf- ficient to perfect what I ...
... common life , pointing out the fairest and most fruitful spots , as well as the rocks , and wilder- nesses , and faithless morasses of the country . But I feel age advancing upon me ; and my health is insuf- ficient to perfect what I ...
Σελίδα xv
... common affairs of life , as well as the men : yet the characters which are here drawn occasionally are almost universally applied to one sex ; but if any of the other shall find a character which suits them , they may , by a small ...
... common affairs of life , as well as the men : yet the characters which are here drawn occasionally are almost universally applied to one sex ; but if any of the other shall find a character which suits them , they may , by a small ...
Σελίδα 1
... is not to be done well , without thinking and reasoning about them . The common duties and benefits of society , which be long to every man living , as we are social creatures , B and even our native and necessary relations to a fa-
... is not to be done well , without thinking and reasoning about them . The common duties and benefits of society , which be long to every man living , as we are social creatures , B and even our native and necessary relations to a fa-
Σελίδα 6
... common topics , and thence they took it into their heads to abandon reading and labour , and grow old in ignorance ; but when they had lost their vivacity of animal nature and youth , they became stupid and sottish even to contempt and ...
... common topics , and thence they took it into their heads to abandon reading and labour , and grow old in ignorance ; but when they had lost their vivacity of animal nature and youth , they became stupid and sottish even to contempt and ...
Σελίδα 15
... common , and sen- sible things . The great God of Heaven , for this cause , sends them strong delusions , that they should believe a lie ; and the nonsense of transubstantiation in the popish world , is a most glaring accomplish . ment ...
... common , and sen- sible things . The great God of Heaven , for this cause , sends them strong delusions , that they should believe a lie ; and the nonsense of transubstantiation in the popish world , is a most glaring accomplish . ment ...
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Σελίδα 448 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
Σελίδα 419 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range : by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities . Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Σελίδα x - ... his mind and aid his restoration to health; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight.
Σελίδα 447 - Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard : I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Σελίδα 84 - 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 xii - Few men have left behind such purity of character, or such monuments of laborious piety. He has provided instruction for all ages; from those who are lisping their first lessons, to the enlightened readers of Malebranche and Locke; he has left neither corporeal nor spiritual nature unexamined; he has taught the art of reasoning, and the science of the stars.
Σελίδα 456 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that, is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Σελίδα 150 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Σελίδα 207 - 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 187 - Sounds which address the ear are lost and die In one short hour ; but that which strikes the eye Lives long upon the mind; the faithful sight Engraves the knowledge with a beam of light.