A Treatise on Self-knowledgeJ. Walker, 1816 - 268 Seiten |
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... conduct from those who have a very different part assigned them from ours , unless in those things that are univer- sally ornamental and exemplary . If we do , we shall but expose our affectation and weakness , and ourselves to contempt ...
... conduct from those who have a very different part assigned them from ours , unless in those things that are univer- sally ornamental and exemplary . If we do , we shall but expose our affectation and weakness , and ourselves to contempt ...
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... the particular sins he is most exposed and ad- dicted to ; and discovers not only what is ridi- culous , but what is criminal , in his conduct and temper . ' The outward actions of a man are generally the plainest SELF - KNOWLEDGE . 29.
... the particular sins he is most exposed and ad- dicted to ; and discovers not only what is ridi- culous , but what is criminal , in his conduct and temper . ' The outward actions of a man are generally the plainest SELF - KNOWLEDGE . 29.
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... conduct , as I have had , and therefore his defects herein are more excusable . And he may have many other kind of excellencies which I have not . But he is not only ignorant and unmannered , but insufferably vain , conceited , and ...
... conduct , as I have had , and therefore his defects herein are more excusable . And he may have many other kind of excellencies which I have not . But he is not only ignorant and unmannered , but insufferably vain , conceited , and ...
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... conduct , and , by degrees , wear off the prejudices which fancy has fixed in the mind , either for or against any particular action ; teach us to distin- guish between things and their appearances ; strip them of those false colours ...
... conduct , and , by degrees , wear off the prejudices which fancy has fixed in the mind , either for or against any particular action ; teach us to distin- guish between things and their appearances ; strip them of those false colours ...
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... conduct . It is not only very possible , but very common , for men to be ignorant of the chief inducements of their behaviour ; and to imagine they act from one motive , whilst they are apparently governed by another . If we examine our ...
... conduct . It is not only very possible , but very common , for men to be ignorant of the chief inducements of their behaviour ; and to imagine they act from one motive , whilst they are apparently governed by another . If we examine our ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 204 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good ; let him seek peace and ensue it.
Seite 230 - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Seite 222 - When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me; For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Seite 204 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Seite 229 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming in the which all that are in their graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation ?
Seite 47 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Seite 83 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Seite 211 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Seite 200 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Seite 197 - The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.