Hints Towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess ...T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805 - 330 páginas |
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... retain every natu- ral hope and fear , every affection and paffion of the heart , every frailty of the mind , and every weaknefs of the body , to which the meaneft fubject is liable ; how exquifitely inhuman which INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... retain every natu- ral hope and fear , every affection and paffion of the heart , every frailty of the mind , and every weaknefs of the body , to which the meaneft fubject is liable ; how exquifitely inhuman which INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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... heart to the most exalted moral uses . If this be true in general , much more forcibly does it apply to the education of princes ! Nothing fhort of the foundest , moft rational , and , let me add , most reli- gious education , can ...
... heart to the most exalted moral uses . If this be true in general , much more forcibly does it apply to the education of princes ! Nothing fhort of the foundest , moft rational , and , let me add , most reli- gious education , can ...
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... heart many of the finest Thucydides and Xenophon , especially those Thus which relate to life and manners . were her early years fedulously employed in laying in a large stock of materials for go- verning well . To what purpose fhe im ...
... heart many of the finest Thucydides and Xenophon , especially those Thus which relate to life and manners . were her early years fedulously employed in laying in a large stock of materials for go- verning well . To what purpose fhe im ...
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... heart for vigorous exertion . Specious appearances will perpetually de- ceive that mind which has been accustomed to acquiefce in them through ignorance , blindness , and inaction . A prince fhould be ignorant of nothing which it is ...
... heart for vigorous exertion . Specious appearances will perpetually de- ceive that mind which has been accustomed to acquiefce in them through ignorance , blindness , and inaction . A prince fhould be ignorant of nothing which it is ...
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... heart , and fix the tafte ; and , by giving juft proportions to the mind , teach it the power of fair appreciation , draw it to adopt what is reasonable , to love what is good , to taste what is pure , and to imitate what is elegant ...
... heart , and fix the tafte ; and , by giving juft proportions to the mind , teach it the power of fair appreciation , draw it to adopt what is reasonable , to love what is good , to taste what is pure , and to imitate what is elegant ...
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Página 239 - For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing, as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it...
Página 259 - Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need
Página 240 - Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes...
Página 240 - Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Página 217 - By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Página 95 - ... a noble exception. In no country has decency and purity, and, to the disgrace of Christian countries, let it be added, have morality, and even piety, been so generally prevalent in any theatrical compositions, as in what her lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or Iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence.
Página 253 - But what philosopher, before him, after such a lesson to his pupils, could have dared to add the words which immediately follow? "The things which ye have both learned and received, and heard, and seen in me, do, and the God of peace shall be with you.
Página 247 - Whofoever drinketh of the water that I fliall give him, fhall never thirft ; but the water that I fhall give him, fhall be in him a well of water fpringing up into everlafting life.
Página 254 - ... a peace which passeth all understanding;" "a wisdom pure and peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality,