Addresses to Young Men, Tom 2T. Cadell, 1777 |
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Strona 50
... reflect on this attempt with double fatisfaction . It furely re- quires no extraordinary good - nature , to find complacence in contributing to the felicity of others at so easy a rate . We begin with observing , that Recti- tude of ...
... reflect on this attempt with double fatisfaction . It furely re- quires no extraordinary good - nature , to find complacence in contributing to the felicity of others at so easy a rate . We begin with observing , that Recti- tude of ...
Strona 67
... reflected on the teftimo- nies of complacence and affection , with which they were privileged by the great Model of Friendship . That Friendship is not authorized by Christianity , has been alledged without foundation . Though not ...
... reflected on the teftimo- nies of complacence and affection , with which they were privileged by the great Model of Friendship . That Friendship is not authorized by Christianity , has been alledged without foundation . Though not ...
Strona 72
... reflect on these things , we cannot but feel fome discou- ragement in recommending a connexion which is now fo feldom beheld in its pri- meval fplendour , and of which the present felfish and inglorious system of diffipation and luxury ...
... reflect on these things , we cannot but feel fome discou- ragement in recommending a connexion which is now fo feldom beheld in its pri- meval fplendour , and of which the present felfish and inglorious system of diffipation and luxury ...
Strona 83
... reflect its rays ; and , when full of this image , let us contraft with it the illufive and tranfitory glare of that which apes it in the mutual profeffions of men without principle or fenfibility . However fpecious thofe profeffions ...
... reflect its rays ; and , when full of this image , let us contraft with it the illufive and tranfitory glare of that which apes it in the mutual profeffions of men without principle or fenfibility . However fpecious thofe profeffions ...
Strona 119
... reflect that He is the refurrection and the life , " and that , in the magnificent train of his followers whom he fhall raife up at the laft day , you will find your lamented yet happy Friend , brightened into a higher form of being and ...
... reflect that He is the refurrection and the life , " and that , in the magnificent train of his followers whom he fhall raife up at the laft day , you will find your lamented yet happy Friend , brightened into a higher form of being and ...
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Strona 73 - And the multitude of *' them that believed were of one heart and of *' one foul ; neither faid any of them that aught " of the things which he pofTeffed was his " own; but they had all things in common.
Strona 210 - He that is flow to anger, is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his fpirit, than he that taketh a city.
Strona 290 - Modefty has a natural tendency to conceal a man's talents, as Impudence difplays them to the utmoft, and has been the only caufe why many. have rifen in the world, under all the difadvantages of low birth and little merit. Such indolence and incapacity is there in the generality of mankind, that they are apt to receive a man for whatever he has a mind to put himfelf off for, and admit his overbearing airs as proofs of that merit which he aflumes to himfelf.
Strona 38 - For they fleep not .except they have .done mifchief ; and their fleep is taken away unlefs they caufe fome to fall ; for they eat the bread of wickednefs, aad drink.
Strona 216 - It should mingle with our daily life as "a spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Strona 289 - But I have ufed none of thefe things : neither have I written thefe things that it fhould be fo done unto me : for it were better for me to die, than that any man fhould make my glorying void.