Discourses on several important subjects. To which are added, 8 sermons preached at the lady Moyer's lecture, in the cathedral church of st. Paul, London, Tom 11745 |
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... Matter of mere Generofity to a Friend , when we cannot exercife both together . My Meaning is this : When we can , confiftently with the public Good and our own , refcue an Enemy from the very brink of Ruin and extreme Mifery by the ...
... Matter of mere Generofity to a Friend , when we cannot exercife both together . My Meaning is this : When we can , confiftently with the public Good and our own , refcue an Enemy from the very brink of Ruin and extreme Mifery by the ...
Strona 8
... Matters of greater Offence , we must strive to redress our Wrongs by those calm and fedate Methods , which cool Reason fuggefts ; and not by any Acts of Violence , Outrage and Infult . II . Having thus ftated the Nature and Extent of ...
... Matters of greater Offence , we must strive to redress our Wrongs by those calm and fedate Methods , which cool Reason fuggefts ; and not by any Acts of Violence , Outrage and Infult . II . Having thus ftated the Nature and Extent of ...
Strona 26
... Matters of Knowledge as far as it was able to extend ; holds as true in Matters of Morality ; that few or none ever exerted their Abilities , as far as they were able to carry them , to the utmost Stretch of their Power , in the Purfuit ...
... Matters of Knowledge as far as it was able to extend ; holds as true in Matters of Morality ; that few or none ever exerted their Abilities , as far as they were able to carry them , to the utmost Stretch of their Power , in the Purfuit ...
Strona 27
... Matter of Policy , ever to perfecute the Man , whom he has once aggrieved ; this is certain , that it is a Torment to any Man , that has not quite divested himself of all Sentiments of Humanity , to have even a cafual Interview with one ...
... Matter of Policy , ever to perfecute the Man , whom he has once aggrieved ; this is certain , that it is a Torment to any Man , that has not quite divested himself of all Sentiments of Humanity , to have even a cafual Interview with one ...
Strona 43
... Matter . too hard to make any Impreffion at all upon them : And perhaps moft Men feel more in the whole of their Life , from the fcornful Reproofs of the Wealthy , the Defpitefulness of the Proud , taunting Sarcafms and little Inftances ...
... Matter . too hard to make any Impreffion at all upon them : And perhaps moft Men feel more in the whole of their Life , from the fcornful Reproofs of the Wealthy , the Defpitefulness of the Proud , taunting Sarcafms and little Inftances ...
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Actions againſt anſwer Beauty becauſe Benevolence beſt Bleffings Cafe Cauſe Chriftian Confequence confider Confideration confiftent Courſe Daniel Waterland Defire Deity Diverfions Duty eafy eaſy Efteem elſe endeavour faid fame feems feldom felves ferve fettled feveral fhall fhew firſt folid fome fomething fometimes foon ftand ftill fuch fuffer fure give Goodneſs greateſt habitual Happineſs happy Heart himſelf Honour Ideas IIdly Inftance intereſted Irreligion itſelf juft juſt laft laſt leaft leaſt lefs Love Luftre Malice Mankind Meaſure Mifery Mind moft Morality moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary nefs never obferved occafional ourſelves Paffion Perfon Piety pleaſe Pleaſure pray Prayer prefent Principle publick racter raiſe Reaſon Religion Senfe Senſe SER.XIII SER.XIV SER.XVI SERM ſhall ſhould ſome Soul ſpeak Spirit ſuch Temper thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe Thoughts tion Truth ture Underſtanding uneafy univerfal unleſs uſe Vice Virtue whofe Wiſdom World
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Strona 218 - ... humanity and generosity which are necessary to become a great fortune ; and of all those perfections, viz., moderation, humility, and temperance, which are necessary to bear a small one patiently ; but especially it is your duty to acquire a taste for those pleasures which, after they are tasted, go off agreeably, and leave behind them a grateful and delightful flavour on the mind.
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Strona 219 - The justly valuing and duly using the Advantages enjoyed in a Place of Education. One considerable advantage is, that regular method of study, too much neglected in other places, which obtains here. Nothing is more common elsewhere, than for persons to plunge, at once, into the very depth of science, (far beyond their own,) without having learned the first rudiments : nothing more common, than for some to pass...
Strona 209 - But nothing can shine with undiminished lustre, but religion and knowledge, which are essentially and intrinsically bright. Take it therefore for granted, which you will find by -experience, that nothing can be long entertaining, but what is in some measure beneficial ; because nothing else will bear a calm and sedate review.
Strona 227 - ... thofe excellent Books, which contain a Confutation of them ; like Infects preferved for Ages in Amber, which otherwife would foon have returned to the common Mafs of Things. But a firm Belief of Chriftianity and a Practice fuitable to it will fupport and invigorate the Mind to the...
Strona 217 - ... though nothing merely in order to be commended. That time, which others must employ in tilling the ground (which often deceives their expectation) with the sweat of their brow, they may lay out in cultivating the mind, a soil always grateful to the care of the tiller. The sum of what I would say...