The claims of the gospel on the young1847 |
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... taste , the fascinations of beauty , and the bewitching power of music , with its accompanying dis- sipating amusements , all claim the youthful monarch as their friend . Yet , in the midst of these blandishments , surrounded by all ...
... taste , the fascinations of beauty , and the bewitching power of music , with its accompanying dis- sipating amusements , all claim the youthful monarch as their friend . Yet , in the midst of these blandishments , surrounded by all ...
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... taste . In short , you can contrive so to fill your mind with other objects as to crowd into almost total oblivion the thought that there is such a thing in existence as an estimable moral character . You may form your mind to such ...
... taste . In short , you can contrive so to fill your mind with other objects as to crowd into almost total oblivion the thought that there is such a thing in existence as an estimable moral character . You may form your mind to such ...
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... taste of a disagree- able drug , or the unnatural crime of suicide ; they solicit you to sinful pleasures , to the gratification of a corrupt bias : the propensity to imitation and corrupt natural desire com- bine . Your associates ...
... taste of a disagree- able drug , or the unnatural crime of suicide ; they solicit you to sinful pleasures , to the gratification of a corrupt bias : the propensity to imitation and corrupt natural desire com- bine . Your associates ...
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... blended with the emotions of taste and the social feelings . Such are the sense of hearing and its gratification in music , mingled with the emotions and sentiments to which it gives rise . Such also is vision , ON THE YOUNG . 57.
... blended with the emotions of taste and the social feelings . Such are the sense of hearing and its gratification in music , mingled with the emotions and sentiments to which it gives rise . Such also is vision , ON THE YOUNG . 57.
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... taste has , perhaps , become exquisite . To obtain the gratification which you desire , you seek it in associations of a questionable character . You go to the play , because you think you must have a music not to be found elsewhere in ...
... taste has , perhaps , become exquisite . To obtain the gratification which you desire , you seek it in associations of a questionable character . You go to the play , because you think you must have a music not to be found elsewhere in ...
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Page 58 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 82 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 130 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way : and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.
Page 44 - And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? for ye are the temple of the living God ; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Page 116 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 4 - And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses ; neither after him 26 arose there any like him.
Page 22 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me...
Page 29 - Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Page 1 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below"; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 83 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...