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 6
... understanding heart , to profit by the first hint that offers . But the most awful lessons are too frequently neglected . In company with some students , Mr. Hale was one day dining and making merry , when , from excessive drinking , a ...
... understanding heart , to profit by the first hint that offers . But the most awful lessons are too frequently neglected . In company with some students , Mr. Hale was one day dining and making merry , when , from excessive drinking , a ...
Pàgina 35
... so- licitude . Loving them so sincerely , he could not but address to them the best of his understanding . Whatever conduct would carry them most comfortably through this world into a blessed 35 and when his voice could no longer be ...
... so- licitude . Loving them so sincerely , he could not but address to them the best of his understanding . Whatever conduct would carry them most comfortably through this world into a blessed 35 and when his voice could no longer be ...
Pàgina 58
... understanding , are in place ; for you do yourself at once two great mischiefs - 1 . You betray and discover your own weakness and folly . 2. You rob yourself of that opportunity , which you might other- wise have , to gain knowledge ...
... understanding , are in place ; for you do yourself at once two great mischiefs - 1 . You betray and discover your own weakness and folly . 2. You rob yourself of that opportunity , which you might other- wise have , to gain knowledge ...
Pàgina 71
... of life through an evil and dangerous world ; and to require you to be frequent in reading the Scriptures , with due observation and understanding , which will make you wise for this life , and that which ON THE LORD'S DAY . 71.
... of life through an evil and dangerous world ; and to require you to be frequent in reading the Scriptures , with due observation and understanding , which will make you wise for this life , and that which ON THE LORD'S DAY . 71.
Pàgina 93
... understanding , and the very sense of your own condition , or of what might be conducible to your good . All that you could do , was only to make your condition more desperate , in case they that were about you had not prevented it ...
... understanding , and the very sense of your own condition , or of what might be conducible to your good . All that you could do , was only to make your condition more desperate , in case they that were about you had not prevented it ...
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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...