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... learning and virtue . The very liberal pecuniary terms on which the youth was placed with his tutor , Mr. D- , precluded the necessity of his attention to any other pupils , which for many years preceding he had been in the habit of ...
... learning and virtue . The very liberal pecuniary terms on which the youth was placed with his tutor , Mr. D- , precluded the necessity of his attention to any other pupils , which for many years preceding he had been in the habit of ...
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... learning , it was not surprizing that the teacher and the taught should be on the most agreeable terms with each other . The young Sir Charles regarded his pre- ceptor with affection , as well as respect ; and lost , in the idea of a ...
... learning , it was not surprizing that the teacher and the taught should be on the most agreeable terms with each other . The young Sir Charles regarded his pre- ceptor with affection , as well as respect ; and lost , in the idea of a ...
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... learning or science , to which he would have felt himself so unable to return an answer . It was a subject he had scarcely ever taken into consider- ation . Having never formed any particular reli- gious opinions for himself , he had ...
... learning or science , to which he would have felt himself so unable to return an answer . It was a subject he had scarcely ever taken into consider- ation . Having never formed any particular reli- gious opinions for himself , he had ...
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... learning you are going to --- Oh ! I have heard it is a sad place for young gentle- men ; temptations of every sort ; no fear of God before the eyes of most of them . Alas ! if with all your learning , your riches , and your high- birth ...
... learning you are going to --- Oh ! I have heard it is a sad place for young gentle- men ; temptations of every sort ; no fear of God before the eyes of most of them . Alas ! if with all your learning , your riches , and your high- birth ...
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... ment he always expressed in conversation , made him the idol of every society he frequented , whilst his general learning insured him admira- tion and respect . He was likewise esteemed the man 36 TALENTS IMPROVED . .
... ment he always expressed in conversation , made him the idol of every society he frequented , whilst his general learning insured him admira- tion and respect . He was likewise esteemed the man 36 TALENTS IMPROVED . .
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Page 204 - LORD of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things ; Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 133 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak : for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 161 - O LORD, from whom all good things do come ; Grant to us thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that be good, and by thy merciful guiding may perform the same ; through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 211 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 253 - For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 204 - Tyrius argues, agreeably to what was said above, that "if skill in the professions and sciences is insinuated into men's minds by a divine influence, we can much less imagine that a thing so much more excellent as virtue is, can be the work of any mortal art; for strange must be the notion that we have of God, to think that he is liberal and free in matters of less moment, and sparing in the greatest.
Page 42 - But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Page 61 - So let our lips and lives express The holy gospel we profess; So let our works and virtues shine, To prove the doctrine all divine.
Page 220 - ... for the things done in the body, whether they have been good or evil.
Page 194 - Cursed is every one which continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them...