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An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors Adapted to the Year of Grace MDCCCXLV Caroline Frances Cornwallis Visualizzazione completa - 1845 |
An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors Adapted to the Year of Grace MDCCCXLV Caroline Frances Cornwallis Visualizzazione completa - 1845 |
An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors Adapted to the Year of Grace MDCCCXLV. Caroline Frances Cornwallis Visualizzazione completa - 1846 |
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Pagina 3 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Pagina 4 - ... sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Pagina 33 - By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, that ye love one another.
Pagina 34 - WE receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, and do sign him with the sign of the cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner against sin, the world, and the devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end.
Pagina 4 - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and...
Pagina 4 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and conteution ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Pagina 58 - The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Pagina 45 - A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and as it were more divinely. Natures...
Pagina 18 - ... deeds done in the body, whether they be good or whether they be evil...
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| Titolo | An Exposition of Vulgar and Common Errors Adapted to the Year of Grace MDCCCXLV Edizione 8 di Small books on great subjects |
| Autore | Caroline Frances Cornwallis |
| Editore | William Pickering, 1845 |
| Provenienza dell'originale | Oxford University |
| Digitalizzato | 4 ott 2006 |
| Lunghezza | 132 pagine |
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