 ... thing at variance with the purest chastity. Whatever, in other respects, may be the fascinations of a book, if it be impure or lascivious, let it be eschewed. Whatever be the accomplishments of an acquaintance, if he or she be licentious in conversation...  Sketches of American Character - Pàgina 56per Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1831 - 287 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1828 - 608 pàgines
...they had on his mind ; but yet, notwithstanding his conduct, he never lost his sense of the purity,and beauty of virtue, nor his determination to pursue...horror, the fatal relish for liquors which his son had acquired. The daughters of Mr. Murray were married, and all of them gone from the paternal roof—James... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1835 - 494 pàgines
...acquaintance, if he or she be licentious in conversation or action, let him or her be shunned. No man can take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned. We cannot mingle with the vile, let that vileness be dressed in ever so tasteful a garb, without becoming... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1843 - 420 pàgines
...acquaintance, if he or she be licentious in conversation or action, let him or her be shunned. No man can take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned. We cannot mingle with the vile, Jet that vileness be dressed in ever so tasteful a garb, without becoming... | |
 | 1845 - 600 pàgines
...that assures him of safety in indulgences that perverted appetites demand. Certain it w that no man can take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned, nor go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned ; but the young, even if instructed, are slow to credit... | |
 | 1851 - 702 pàgines
...that assures him of safety in indulgences that perverted appetites demand. Certain it is that no man can take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned, nor go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned ; but the young, even if instructed, are slow to credit... | |
 | Rev. Daniel Smith - 1852 - 278 pàgines
...accomplishments of an acquaintance, if he be not chaste in conversation or action, let him be shunned. No man can take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned. He cannot mingle with the vile, let that vileness be dressed in ever so tasteful a garb, without becoming... | |
 | 1853 - 398 pàgines
...blighting of their hopes, but never dreamed of the cause till it was too late to counteract it. When a man can take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned, when one can go on hot coals and his feet not be burned, then may a parent hope to bring vicious persons... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1858 - 442 pàgines
...acquaintance, if he or she be licentious in conversation or action let him or her be shunned. No man can take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned. We cannot mingle with the vile, let that vileness be dressed in ever so tasteful a garb, without becoming... | |
 | Sabbath teachings - 1866 - 220 pàgines
...immediately fly to Thee for assistance to be delivered from them, before they lead us on to bad actions. As no one can take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned, so neither can we retain and cherish wicked desires, without danger of our souls being lost. Lord,... | |
 | 1870 - 876 pàgines
...destruction as the man who refuses to submit to God's law as revealed in His works, who imagines he can take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned. Even Gibbon, the infidel historian, admits that it was with the decline of religion and morality that... | |
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