The Counsels of a Father, in Four Letters of Sir Matthew Hale to His Children. To which is Added, The Practical Life of a True Christian ... With a New Memoir of the Author's Life ... Second EditionTaylor and Hessey, 1817 - 207 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... nature to place any confidence in our own strength . Prayers are a much better preservative than Vows . These , however , are frequently made by persons in Mr. Hale's situation , who have not the grace to keep them with the same ...
... nature to place any confidence in our own strength . Prayers are a much better preservative than Vows . These , however , are frequently made by persons in Mr. Hale's situation , who have not the grace to keep them with the same ...
Pàgina 12
... nature , and by analogy obtained an insight beyond that of the senses . Of the sublime mysteries of our religion he loved to reason , not rashly or with presumption , but according to that in- tellectual scale by which God has permitted ...
... nature , and by analogy obtained an insight beyond that of the senses . Of the sublime mysteries of our religion he loved to reason , not rashly or with presumption , but according to that in- tellectual scale by which God has permitted ...
Pàgina 25
... nature prompt me to pity , yet to consider that there is also a pity due to the coun- try . IX . That I be not too rigid in matters purely conscientious , where all the harm is diversity of judgment . X. That I be not biassed with ...
... nature prompt me to pity , yet to consider that there is also a pity due to the coun- try . IX . That I be not too rigid in matters purely conscientious , where all the harm is diversity of judgment . X. That I be not biassed with ...
Pàgina 39
... nature , so no man shall be either truly wise or truly happy without it , and the love of it ; no , not in this life , much less in that which is to come . First . Therefore every morning and every evening , upon your knees , humbly ...
... nature , so no man shall be either truly wise or truly happy without it , and the love of it ; no , not in this life , much less in that which is to come . First . Therefore every morning and every evening , upon your knees , humbly ...
Pàgina 56
... , yet will fill your memory with such discourses , that will be troublesome to you in after - time ; and the returns of the remembrance of the passages , : which you long since heard of this nature , will 56 LETTER II .
... , yet will fill your memory with such discourses , that will be troublesome to you in after - time ; and the returns of the remembrance of the passages , : which you long since heard of this nature , will 56 LETTER II .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 83 - ... then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord ; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father : for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Pàgina 168 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Pàgina 83 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, From doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; And call the sabbath a delight, The holy of the Lord, honourable; And shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, Nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord...
Pàgina 28 - Let him that will, ascend the tottering seat Of courtly grandeur, and become as great As are his mounting wishes : as for me, Let sweet repose and rest my portion be ; Give me some mean, obscure recess, a sphere Out of the road of business, or the fear Of falling lower ; where I sweetly may Myself and dear retirement still enjoy : Let not my life or name be known unto The grandees of the time...
Pàgina 23 - Not to be solicitous what men will say or think, so long as I keep myself exactly according to the rule of justice. 13. If in criminals it be a measuring cast, to incline to mercy and acquittal.
Pàgina 50 - If any person, that you do not very well know to be a person of truth, sobriety and weight, relate strange stories, be not too ready or easy to believe them, nor report them after him. And yet, unless he be one of your familiar acquaintance, be not too forward to contradict him ; or, if the necessity of the occasion...
Pàgina 107 - Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
Pàgina 70 - I have found by a strict and diligent observation that a due observance of the duty of this day hath ever had joined to it a blessing upon the rest of my time, and the week that hath been so begun hath been blessed and prosperous to me...