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 xi
... prejudices ? And what more proper season to receive those assistances , and to lay a foundation for this difficult but very important science , than the early part of youth ? < It may be said , " It is properly the of fice and care of ...
... prejudices ? And what more proper season to receive those assistances , and to lay a foundation for this difficult but very important science , than the early part of youth ? < It may be said , " It is properly the of fice and care of ...
Página xiii
... prejudices : which have increased with his learning , and which when he comes to be better acquainted with human life and human nature , he is soon sensible and ashamed of ; but perhaps is never able to conquer as long as he lives , for ...
... prejudices : which have increased with his learning , and which when he comes to be better acquainted with human life and human nature , he is soon sensible and ashamed of ; but perhaps is never able to conquer as long as he lives , for ...
Página xviii
... prejudices of the heart . CHAP . X. The necessity and means of knowing our natural temper . CHAP . XI . Concerning the secret springs of our actions . CHAP . XII . Every one that knows himself , is in a particular manner sensible how ...
... prejudices of the heart . CHAP . X. The necessity and means of knowing our natural temper . CHAP . XI . Concerning the secret springs of our actions . CHAP . XII . Every one that knows himself , is in a particular manner sensible how ...
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... prejudices of some against the account which Scripture gives us of the mysterious man- ner of the existence of the divine nature ; of which every man , as created in the image of GOD , carries about him a kind of emblem , in the ...
... prejudices of some against the account which Scripture gives us of the mysterious man- ner of the existence of the divine nature ; of which every man , as created in the image of GOD , carries about him a kind of emblem , in the ...
Página 68
... prejudices of the heart . VIII . ANOTHER important branch of self knowledge is , for a man to be acquainted with his own prejudices ; or those secret preposses- sions of his heart , which , though so deep and latent , that he may not be ...
... prejudices of the heart . VIII . ANOTHER important branch of self knowledge is , for a man to be acquainted with his own prejudices ; or those secret preposses- sions of his heart , which , though so deep and latent , that he may not be ...
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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.