The Young Man's Counsellor; Or, Sketches and Illustrations of the Duties and Dangers of Young Men: Designed to be a Guide to Success in this Life, and to Happiness in the Life which is to ComeCarlton & Porter, 1850 - 255 páginas |
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admiration attain beauty Behold beware brow character charmed Christ command court cries cultivate danger dare death degraded desire destruction diligently Divine duties Ebenezer Elliot embrace of evil enchanted energy eternal evil exclaimed eyes fame fear flag of Spain friends gaze genius glory Good-morning guilty habits hand happiness heart Hence HENRY KIRKE WHITE holy honor hope Horace Vere human idea idle illustration indulgence industry influence integrity intellect labor live Lord mankind marriage means ment merchant mind Mirabeau misery Montcalm moral nature ness never noble Olney hymns passion pleasure poor principle Ralph Montcalm rashness reader religion remorse reply resolve RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN ruin seek sloth society soul spirit stand stingings of conscience strength sublime success tact taste theatre thee things thou thought tion toil truth utter vice vicious victim virtue voice WILLIAM COBBETT yield young young sinner youth Zwingle
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Página 175 - 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.
Página 31 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Página 224 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Página 243 - And he that shuts Love out, in turn shall be Shut out from Love, and on her threshold lie Howling in outer darkness.
Página 41 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me : — " My father, Thou art the guide of my youth?
Página 225 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Página 62 - Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Página 149 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Página 61 - There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Página 124 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.