The Counsels of a Father, in Four Letters of Sir Matthew Hale to His Children. To which is Added, The Practical Life of a True Christian ... With a New Memoir of the Author's Life ... Second EditionTaylor and Hessey, 1817 - 207 páginas |
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... understanding heart , to profit by the first hint that offers . But the most awful lessons are too frequently neglected . In company with some students , Mr. Hale was one day dining and making merry , when , from excessive drinking , a ...
... understanding heart , to profit by the first hint that offers . But the most awful lessons are too frequently neglected . In company with some students , Mr. Hale was one day dining and making merry , when , from excessive drinking , a ...
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... children was the object of his constant so- licitude . Loving them so sincerely , he could not but address to them the best of his understanding . Whatever conduct would 1 carry them most comfortably through this world into a 35.
... children was the object of his constant so- licitude . Loving them so sincerely , he could not but address to them the best of his understanding . Whatever conduct would 1 carry them most comfortably through this world into a 35.
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... understanding , are in place ; for you do yourself at once two great mischiefs : -1 . You betray and discover your own weakness and folly . 2. You rob yourself of that opportunity , which you might other- wise have , to gain knowledge ...
... understanding , are in place ; for you do yourself at once two great mischiefs : -1 . You betray and discover your own weakness and folly . 2. You rob yourself of that opportunity , which you might other- wise have , to gain knowledge ...
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... of life through an evil and dangerous world ; and to require you to be frequent in reading the Scriptures , with due observation and understanding , which will make you wise for this life , and that which ON THE LORD'S DAY . 71.
... of life through an evil and dangerous world ; and to require you to be frequent in reading the Scriptures , with due observation and understanding , which will make you wise for this life , and that which ON THE LORD'S DAY . 71.
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... understanding , and the very sense of your own condition , or of what might be conducible to your good . All that you could do , was only to make your condition more desperate , in case they that were about you had not prevented it ...
... understanding , and the very sense of your own condition , or of what might be conducible to your good . All that you could do , was only to make your condition more desperate , in case they that were about you had not prevented it ...
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Página 168 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 83 - ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Página 83 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Página 24 - Not to be solicitous what men will say or think, so long as I keep myself exactly according to the rules of justice. " XIII. If in criminals it be a measuring cast, to incline to mercy and acquittal.
Página 206 - THE STUDENT'S JOURNAL. Arranged, Printed, and Ruled for receiving an Account of every Day's Employment for the space of One Year. With an Index and Appendix.
Página 50 - If any person, that you do not very well know to be a person of truth, sobriety and weight, relate strange stories, be not too ready or easy to believe them, nor report them after him. And yet, unless he be one of your familiar acquaintance, be not too forward to contradict him ; or, if the necessity of the occasion...
Página 205 - We are happy to announce another publication of this judicious and useful writer, particularly as we think that the present •will be found among the most valuable of Mrs Taylor's productions The...
Página 107 - Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Página 206 - LETTERS from an ELDER to a YOUNGER BROTHER, on the CONDUCT to be pursued in LIFE. By W. HUSSEY. Third Edition, in 2 vols.
Página 206 - ... and Ruled for receiving an account of every day's employment for the space of one year. With an Index and Appendix. Cheaper Edition. Post 8vo, strongly half-bound, Bs. 6d. The Student's Journal. Formed on the plan of the "Private Diary.