An Ethical Essay: Or, an Attempt to Enumerate the Several Duties which We Owe to God, Our Saviour, Our Neighbour and Ourselves, and the Virtues and Graces of the Christian Life; Contrasted on the Opposite Pages with Their Opposite Vices and Ill Dispositions. To Each of which are Subjoined Some Loose Notes, Imperfect Hints, and Common Observations, Serving to Illustrate, Limit, Or Enforce Them. Intended to Assist in the Important Duty of Self-examinationFoote, & Brown, prs., 1830 - 183 sider |
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Side iv
... subject , as indi- eated in the Introductory Notice and Preface of the Author , name- ' ly , the duties we owe to inferior animals , is omitted . It appears to have been left in a very unfinished and imperfect state , and the few ...
... subject , as indi- eated in the Introductory Notice and Preface of the Author , name- ' ly , the duties we owe to inferior animals , is omitted . It appears to have been left in a very unfinished and imperfect state , and the few ...
Side xiii
... subject of this memoir was born , where he remained until 1737 , when he was elected President of the college in which he had been educa- ted . He then removed to Cambridge and presided over that institution , with great dignity and ...
... subject of this memoir was born , where he remained until 1737 , when he was elected President of the college in which he had been educa- ted . He then removed to Cambridge and presided over that institution , with great dignity and ...
Side xvii
... subject to his will . He was an ac- curate observer of facts , but of facts viewed in reference to princi- ples . He was , in truth , a philosophical inquirer , and allowed not his deductions to outrun the premises . He aspired to be ...
... subject to his will . He was an ac- curate observer of facts , but of facts viewed in reference to princi- ples . He was , in truth , a philosophical inquirer , and allowed not his deductions to outrun the premises . He aspired to be ...
Side xviii
... subject under remark ; but never so much as thought of taking what is called the lead in any discussion . He regarded the ordi- nary intercourse of friends as a means of relaxation and of mutual improvement , and avoided , therefore ...
... subject under remark ; but never so much as thought of taking what is called the lead in any discussion . He regarded the ordi- nary intercourse of friends as a means of relaxation and of mutual improvement , and avoided , therefore ...
Side xxi
... subject , who was once his pupil and now presides as one of his successors over the Medical Society of our State , that " in good solid medical learning , few men in our country have surpassed him . " Though an assiduous student he was ...
... subject , who was once his pupil and now presides as one of his successors over the Medical Society of our State , that " in good solid medical learning , few men in our country have surpassed him . " Though an assiduous student he was ...
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Side 73 - And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
Side ii - Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirtieth day of June, AD 1826, and in the fiftieth year of the independence of the United States of America, JP DABNEY, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the ' right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : — A Selection of Hymns and Psalms, for social and private worship.
Side 149 - If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Side 43 - How, and in what particular way it had this efficacy, there are not wanting persons who have endeavoured to explain ; but I do not find that the Scripture has explained it.
Side 19 - And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Side 173 - Thus, we repeat, He admonishes men to return to God ; to reestablish their original likeness to him ; and He, who is " the brightness of his Father's glory, and the express image of his person...
Side 161 - When he was reviled, he reviled not again. When he suffered he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously.
Side 103 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Side 17 - And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul...
Side 87 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.