The Improvement of the MindJ. Loring, 1833 - 234 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 34 - 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 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 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 26 - Nor should a student in divinity imagine that our age is arrived at a full understanding of every thing which can be known by the Scriptures. Every age since the Reformation hath thrown some further light on difficult texts and paragraphs of the Bible, which have been long obscured by the early rise of Antichrist ; and since there are at present many difficulties and darknesses hanging about certain truths of the Christian religion ; and since several of these relate to important doctrines, such...
Σελίδα 24 - 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 106 - As you may sometimes raise inquiries for your own instruction and improvement, and draw out the learning, wisdom, and fine sentiments of your friends, who perhaps may be too reserved or modest ; so at other times, if you perceive a person unskilful in the matter of debate, you may, by questions aptly proposed in the Socratic method, lead him into a clearer knowledge of the subject : then you become his instructor, in such a manner as may not appear to make yourself his superior. 11. Take heed of...
Σελίδα 148 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Σελίδα 120 - But observe in two pages afterwards, he grants that this principle of fear of future punishment, and hope of future reward, how mercenary and servile soever it may be accounted, is yet, in many circumstances, a great advantage, security, and support to virtue...
Σελίδα 21 - Take a wide survey, now and then, of the vast and unlimited regions of learning. Let your meditations run over the names of all the sciences, with their numerous branchings, and...