Letters to a Young Student: In the First Stage of a Liberal EducationPerkins & Marvin, 1832 - 174 páginas |
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Página 14
... look with peculiar pleasure on the step you have taken , from the intimation you have given me , that it is your present purpose to become a preacher of the gospel . When I turn my eyes eastward , and westward , and northward , and ...
... look with peculiar pleasure on the step you have taken , from the intimation you have given me , that it is your present purpose to become a preacher of the gospel . When I turn my eyes eastward , and westward , and northward , and ...
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... look , yourself , I doubt not , with some degree of anxiety on the course be- fore you . And yet I know you cannot fully realize the perils which will beset your path . Be assured , they are many , -they are fearful . I say not this to ...
... look , yourself , I doubt not , with some degree of anxiety on the course be- fore you . And yet I know you cannot fully realize the perils which will beset your path . Be assured , they are many , -they are fearful . I say not this to ...
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... look in vain to this source for what he specially needs . We have some excel- lent works designed for the instruction of young Christians , which have no special relation to the case of a student . We have , indeed , some works written ...
... look in vain to this source for what he specially needs . We have some excel- lent works designed for the instruction of young Christians , which have no special relation to the case of a student . We have , indeed , some works written ...
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... Look well to the influence of habit over yourself . While I would urge you to beware of a single wrong act , Strive to turn I would say , look with peculiar 32 LETTERS TO A.
... Look well to the influence of habit over yourself . While I would urge you to beware of a single wrong act , Strive to turn I would say , look with peculiar 32 LETTERS TO A.
Página 33
... look with peculiar dread on the repetition of any thing wrong . Be assured , that , with every such repetition , you are adding a new link to a chain in which your own soul may be bound forever . You have not forgotten the words of Him ...
... look with peculiar dread on the repetition of any thing wrong . Be assured , that , with every such repetition , you are adding a new link to a chain in which your own soul may be bound forever . You have not forgotten the words of Him ...
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Página 66 - ... true eloquence I find to be none but the serious and hearty love of truth; and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Página 89 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 106 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Página 13 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Página 86 - I HAVE often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man. A man, who gets into a habit of inquiring about proprieties and expediencies and occasions, often spends his life without doing any thing to purpose.
Página xi - He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city,
Página 66 - Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi; if you wish me to weep, you must yourself first weep.
Página 39 - It may be further observed, that if there be any thing that can be called genius in matters of mere judgment and reasoning, it seems to consist chiefly in being able to give that attention to the subject which keeps it steady in the mind, till we can survey it accurately on all sides.
Página 43 - I have never yet engaged in any exercise, which afforded more salutary discipline of this sort, than that of translating difficult passages from a foreign language. I have sometimes spent whole hours, on even a preposition or an adverb ; but I am very certain, that few of my hours have been spent to better purpose, in their influence over the habits of the mind.
Página 66 - I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth ; and that, whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, WHEN SUCH A MAN WOULD SPEAK, his words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well ordered files, as he would wish, fall abruptly into their own places.