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 páginas |
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Página iii
... every one who knows your character , the delicacy of your taste in the choice of your friends , and the real honour it does to those you are pleased to ad mit into that number . Cover to But even this , Sir , your penetration.
... every one who knows your character , the delicacy of your taste in the choice of your friends , and the real honour it does to those you are pleased to ad mit into that number . Cover to But even this , Sir , your penetration.
Página iv
... honour than you . However , I am beforehand with them in the observation . And that I may not be tempted , in this address , to en- hance your character , according to the usual style of dedications , in order to do honour to my own ...
... honour than you . However , I am beforehand with them in the observation . And that I may not be tempted , in this address , to en- hance your character , according to the usual style of dedications , in order to do honour to my own ...
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... honour thy high original , or degrade thy noble nature . *** But let me still urge it . Consider , I say , O my soul , that thou art an immortal spirit . Thy body dies ; but thou , thou must live for ever , and thine eternity will take ...
... honour thy high original , or degrade thy noble nature . *** But let me still urge it . Consider , I say , O my soul , that thou art an immortal spirit . Thy body dies ; but thou , thou must live for ever , and thine eternity will take ...
Página 39
... imputation . It r the honour of an earth- nded through the sid famation and st head sds the h them is obliquticoatetico e pe pe par pashbidrag pashble bappe and basic knowledging that we hold`every thing of him , and have.
... imputation . It r the honour of an earth- nded through the sid famation and st head sds the h them is obliquticoatetico e pe pe par pashbidrag pashble bappe and basic knowledging that we hold`every thing of him , and have.
Página 39
... honour , which he stands in no need of from us for his power is independent , and his glory immutable ; and he is infinitely able of himself to support the dignity of his univer- sal government . But it is the most natural du- ty we owe ...
... honour , which he stands in no need of from us for his power is independent , and his glory immutable ; and he is infinitely able of himself to support the dignity of his univer- sal government . But it is the most natural du- ty we owe ...
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Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 62 - The whole employ of body and of mind. All spread their charms, but charm not all alike; On...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.