The Christian Father's Present to His Children, Том 2Jonathan Leavitt, 1827 |
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... pass , without taking up a book , is a pitiable spectacle of doltish inanity . Cultivate , then , my children , a taste for reading ; and in order to this , there must be a thirst after information . " Knowledge , " says Lord Bacon ...
... pass , without taking up a book , is a pitiable spectacle of doltish inanity . Cultivate , then , my children , a taste for reading ; and in order to this , there must be a thirst after information . " Knowledge , " says Lord Bacon ...
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... pass without perusing some portion of holy writ . Read it devoutly ; not from curiosity , nor with a view to controversy ; but to be made wise unto salva- tion . Read it with much prayer . Read it with a determination to follow its ...
... pass without perusing some portion of holy writ . Read it devoutly ; not from curiosity , nor with a view to controversy ; but to be made wise unto salva- tion . Read it with much prayer . Read it with a determination to follow its ...
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... pass the threshold . It is very evident that the taste of the pre- sent age is strongly inclined for works of fiction . I am not unacquainted with the arguments by which such productions are justified , nor am I by any means prepared to ...
... pass the threshold . It is very evident that the taste of the pre- sent age is strongly inclined for works of fiction . I am not unacquainted with the arguments by which such productions are justified , nor am I by any means prepared to ...
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... pass without your attempting to gain some new idea . Your first object of existence , as I have already stated , should be the salvation of your soul : the next , the benefit of your fellow - crea- tures ; and then comes the improvement ...
... pass without your attempting to gain some new idea . Your first object of existence , as I have already stated , should be the salvation of your soul : the next , the benefit of your fellow - crea- tures ; and then comes the improvement ...
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... pass through ranks of wretched creatures waiting to ensnare him and rob him of his virtue ; does it not require extraordinary strength of principle to resist the attack ? I admit that modern plays are in some mea- sure purified from ...
... pass through ranks of wretched creatures waiting to ensnare him and rob him of his virtue ; does it not require extraordinary strength of principle to resist the attack ? I admit that modern plays are in some mea- sure purified from ...
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Стр. 51 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Стр. 24 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Стр. 68 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Стр. 117 - O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord...
Стр. 69 - Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
Стр. 153 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Стр. 67 - She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar.
Стр. 126 - Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father which is in heaven ; but whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Стр. 44 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Стр. 153 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.