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... excellent in themselves , as true inftances of a divine temper , but cloaths are only allowed to cover our fhame ; furely therefore it must at least be as odious a degree of pride , to be vain in our cloaths , as to be vain in our alms ...
... excellent in themselves , as true inftances of a divine temper , but cloaths are only allowed to cover our fhame ; furely therefore it must at least be as odious a degree of pride , to be vain in our cloaths , as to be vain in our alms ...
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... excellent purposes , and is fo great a means of doing good . If we wafte it , we don't waste a trifle , that fignifies little , but we waste that which might be made as eyes to the blind , as a husband to the widow , as a father to the ...
... excellent purposes , and is fo great a means of doing good . If we wafte it , we don't waste a trifle , that fignifies little , but we waste that which might be made as eyes to the blind , as a husband to the widow , as a father to the ...
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... excellent management , in making fo furprizing a figure in fo moderate a fortune . Several ladies that have twice her fortune , are not able to be always fo genteel , and fo conftant at all places of pleasure and expence . She has every ...
... excellent management , in making fo furprizing a figure in fo moderate a fortune . Several ladies that have twice her fortune , are not able to be always fo genteel , and fo conftant at all places of pleasure and expence . She has every ...
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... excellent virtue of obedience , in humbly com- plying against your temper . Now what is here granted , is only in things law- ful ; and therefore the diverfion of our English ftage is here excepted ; being elsewhere proved , as I think ...
... excellent virtue of obedience , in humbly com- plying against your temper . Now what is here granted , is only in things law- ful ; and therefore the diverfion of our English ftage is here excepted ; being elsewhere proved , as I think ...
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... excellent holy bishop . If you go on , and ask what is the happiest thing for any young gentleman or his fifters to do ? The an- fwer must be the fame ; that nothing can be fo hap- py or glorious for them , as to live in fuch habits of ...
... excellent holy bishop . If you go on , and ask what is the happiest thing for any young gentleman or his fifters to do ? The an- fwer must be the fame ; that nothing can be fo hap- py or glorious for them , as to live in fuch habits of ...
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Page 102 - Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Page 25 - I count not myfelf to have apprehended ; but this one thing I do, forgetting thofe things which are behind, and reaching forth unto thofe things which are before, I prefs toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Chrift Jefus.
Page 244 - ... that is best, to live according to reason and order, and to act in every part of your life in conformity to the will of God. Study how to fill your heart full of the love of God and the love of your neighbour, and then be content to be no deeper a scholar, no finer a gentleman, than these tempers will make you.
Page 293 - I THANK my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now...
Page 40 - He will tell you with great gravity that it is a dangerous thing for a man that has been used to get money ever to leave it off. If thoughts of religion happen at any time to steal into his head, Calidus contents himself with thinking that he never was a friend to heretics and infidels, that he has always been civil to the minister of his parish, and very often given something to the charity...
Page 170 - KNOW ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 83 - And shall I withhold a little money or food from my fellowcreature for fear he should not be good enough to receive it of me ? Do I beg of God to deal with me, not according to my merit, but according to His own great goodness ; and shall I be so absurd as to withhold my charity from a poor...
Page 70 - ... for the head, in drops for the nerves, in cordials for the stomach, and in saffron for her tea. If you visit Flavia on the Sunday, you will always meet good company ; you will know what is doing in the world, you will hear the last lampoon, be told who wrote it, and who is meant by every name that is in it. You will hear what plays were acted that week, which is the finest song in the opera, who was intolerable at the last assembly, and what games are most in fashion. Flavia thinks they are atheists...
Page 240 - ... we have all of us called it ours in our turn, though it stands and drops its masters, as it drops its leaves. You see my son, this wide and large firmament over our heads, where the sun and moon and all the stars appear in their turns. If you...
Page 70 - If you would know who is rude and ill-natured, who is vain and foppish, who lives too high, and who is in debt: If you would know what is the quarrel at a certain house, or who and who are in love: If you would know how late Belinda comes home at night, what...