Self Knowledge: A Treatise, Shewing the Nature and Benefit of that Important Science, and the Way to Attain It. Intermixed with Various Reflections and Observations on Human NatureSamuel T. Armstrong, 1809 - 211 Seiten |
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... understanding man , than all those rudiments of science he brought with him from the school or college . It is really a melancholy thing to see a young gentleman of shining parts , and a sweet disposition , who has gone through the ...
... understanding man , than all those rudiments of science he brought with him from the school or college . It is really a melancholy thing to see a young gentleman of shining parts , and a sweet disposition , who has gone through the ...
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... understanding man , instead of aiming at talents he hath not , will set about cultivating those he hath ; as the way in which Providence points out his proper usefulness . As , in order to the edification of the church , the Spirit of ...
... understanding man , instead of aiming at talents he hath not , will set about cultivating those he hath ; as the way in which Providence points out his proper usefulness . As , in order to the edification of the church , the Spirit of ...
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... understanding . But what is most dishonoura- ble of all is , for a man at once to discover a great genius and an ungoverned mind ; because that strength of reason and understanding he is master of , gives him a great advan- tage for the ...
... understanding . But what is most dishonoura- ble of all is , for a man at once to discover a great genius and an ungoverned mind ; because that strength of reason and understanding he is master of , gives him a great advan- tage for the ...
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... understanding , address , and conduct , as I have had ; and therefore his defects herein are more excusable . And he may have many other kind of excellen- cies which I have not . " But he is not only ignorant and unmannered , but ...
... understanding , address , and conduct , as I have had ; and therefore his defects herein are more excusable . And he may have many other kind of excellen- cies which I have not . " But he is not only ignorant and unmannered , but ...
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... understandings ; and you will soon see , that nothing they may think or say of you need give you one troublesome thought Id . Book 9. S. 27 . That is the best thing for a man which God sends him and that is the best time when he sends ...
... understandings ; and you will soon see , that nothing they may think or say of you need give you one troublesome thought Id . Book 9. S. 27 . That is the best thing for a man which God sends him and that is the best time when he sends ...
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Seite 118 - We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Seite 90 - Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
Seite 62 - The whole employ of body and of mind. All spread their charms, but charm not all alike; On...
Seite 179 - An adversary, on the contrary, makes a stricter search into us, discovers every flaw and imperfection in our tempers, and though his malice may set them in too strong a light, it has generally some ground for what it advances. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues ; an enemy inflames his crimes. A wise man should give a just attention to both of them, so far as they may tend to the improvement of the one and the diminution of the other.
Seite 56 - A wise man hath his foibles, as well as a fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself, and concealed from the world ; the foibles of the other are known to the world, and concealed from himself.
Seite 82 - In these and the like cases, a man's judgment is easily perverted, and a wrong bias hung upon his mind. These are the inlets of prejudice, the unguarded avenues of the mind, by which a thousand errors and secret faults find admission, without being observed or taken notice of.
Seite 135 - Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, "Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye," and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Seite 190 - When you are angry answer not till you have repeated the fifth petition of the Lord's prayer : — " Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us...
Seite 180 - ... we should consider on the other hand how far we. may deserve the praises and approbations which the world bestow upon us ; whether the actions they celebrate proceed from laudable and worthy motives ; and how far we are really possessed of the virtues which gain us applause among those with whom we converse.
Seite xii - It was the observation of a great divine and reformer, that he w/io acquires his learning at the expense of his morals, is the worse for his education. And we may add, that he who does not improve his temper, together with his understanding, is not much the better for it. For he ought to measure his progress in science by the improvement of his morals ; and remember that he is no further a learned man than he is a wise and good man ; and that he cannot be a finished philosopher till he. is a Christian.