A Socratic discourse on truth and faithfulness; the sequel to A father's instructions [by T. Percival].1781 - 79 páginas |
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... as fuch by the undistinguishing part of mankind . Even history itself , incautiously perused , may have a tendency to pervert the understanding , and to corrupt the native native purity of the heart : For it presents us PREFACE . ir.
... as fuch by the undistinguishing part of mankind . Even history itself , incautiously perused , may have a tendency to pervert the understanding , and to corrupt the native native purity of the heart : For it presents us PREFACE . ir.
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Thomas Percival. native purity of the heart : For it presents us , too often , with falfe and delufive pictures ; and by the gay colouring of the artist , excites our admiration of cha- racters really odious , and of deeds which cannot ...
Thomas Percival. native purity of the heart : For it presents us , too often , with falfe and delufive pictures ; and by the gay colouring of the artist , excites our admiration of cha- racters really odious , and of deeds which cannot ...
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... heart , and direct the conduct of his pupil . But general rules , continued he , are infuffi- cient for our government in the diversified and com- plicated occurrences of life : And if we be ambitious of acting with wisdom , honour ...
... heart , and direct the conduct of his pupil . But general rules , continued he , are infuffi- cient for our government in the diversified and com- plicated occurrences of life : And if we be ambitious of acting with wisdom , honour ...
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... heart . He became haughty , infolent , and cruel ; and the people anticipated , with horror , the tyranny which they muft endure under his government . By the inftitu- tions of the Chinese , the great officers of ftate may remonftrate ...
... heart . He became haughty , infolent , and cruel ; and the people anticipated , with horror , the tyranny which they muft endure under his government . By the inftitu- tions of the Chinese , the great officers of ftate may remonftrate ...
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... heart I acquit you , answered Philocles , with his wonted humanity . You do a kindness , not a wrong , to the person whom you thus deceive ; and may reasonably presuppose his future approbation of that conduct , which meets with the ...
... heart I acquit you , answered Philocles , with his wonted humanity . You do a kindness , not a wrong , to the person whom you thus deceive ; and may reasonably presuppose his future approbation of that conduct , which meets with the ...
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Página 74 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 60 - For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles : but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
Página 61 - Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
Página 20 - Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt Thou rear it up in three days ? But He spake of the temple of His body.
Página 21 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the word did make it, That I believe, and take it.
Página 79 - But the taste for natural beauty is subservient to higher purposes than those which have been enumerated ; and the cultivation of it not only refines and humanizes, but dignifies and exalts the affections. It elevates them to the admiration and love of that Being who is the Author of all that is fair, sublime, and good in the creation.
Página 36 - Spanish merchants, with sentiments suitable to their usual integrity, sustained the whole loss, and indemnified the foreigners by whom they were employed. The fraud was detected, and the treasurer of the revenue in Peru, the author of it, was publicly burnt.
Página 60 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews...
Página 41 - True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to HIM who made us, and to the common nature of which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants; and from just views of the condition, and the duty of man.
Página 38 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground...