Mentor, Or, The Moral Conductor of Youth: From the Academy to Manhood ... Being a Sequel to the Art of Teaching ... to which is Added ... an Essay on the Extensive Utility, Advantages and Amusement of Mathematical LearningKnight and Compton, 1801 - 286 pagine |
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Pagina 25
... passion carried all before it , and drove me head- long into dissipation and vice , without being ab- solutely wicked or decidedly continuing long a slave to my desires . Many virtuous struggles and C + much · much remorse of mind did I ...
... passion carried all before it , and drove me head- long into dissipation and vice , without being ab- solutely wicked or decidedly continuing long a slave to my desires . Many virtuous struggles and C + much · much remorse of mind did I ...
Pagina 30
... passion alone has been able for a time to deaden and overcome . To those who have known me in former life , and especially to those who were more nearly con- nected nected with me , I will only say in the 30 MENTOR .
... passion alone has been able for a time to deaden and overcome . To those who have known me in former life , and especially to those who were more nearly con- nected nected with me , I will only say in the 30 MENTOR .
Pagina 36
... passions . The fear of him only can effectually restrain , where the temptations to sin are strong and sudden , and where neither the love of God , or natural goodness , prevail so forcibly as to overcome them otherwise . The softest ...
... passions . The fear of him only can effectually restrain , where the temptations to sin are strong and sudden , and where neither the love of God , or natural goodness , prevail so forcibly as to overcome them otherwise . The softest ...
Pagina 37
... passions , and establish my mind in virtue and goodness , however late in the day it is to attempt it , and however small the honour when effected ; for the greatness of the triumph consists in resisting sin in early life , and when the ...
... passions , and establish my mind in virtue and goodness , however late in the day it is to attempt it , and however small the honour when effected ; for the greatness of the triumph consists in resisting sin in early life , and when the ...
Pagina 69
... the government of sense and appetite , but of the mind also , and its passions ; and , perhaps , the last have as much need of its wholesome controul as the first ; ́first ; for only beastly wretches are prone to sen- MENTOR . 69.
... the government of sense and appetite , but of the mind also , and its passions ; and , perhaps , the last have as much need of its wholesome controul as the first ; ́first ; for only beastly wretches are prone to sen- MENTOR . 69.
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Pagina 174 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Pagina 173 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Pagina 173 - Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house : lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel...
Pagina 173 - To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Pagina 65 - Go to the Ant, thou Sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pagina 208 - And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God ; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire : and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Pagina iii - I cannot refrain from adding,' says he, 'that the collection of tracts, which we call from their excellence the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass, from all the other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Pagina 99 - Time, in advance, behind him hides his wings, And seems to creep, decrepit with his age ; Behold him, when past by ; what then is seen, But his broad pinions, swifter than the winds ? And all mankind, in contradiction strong, Rueful, aghast ! cry out on his career.
Pagina 174 - For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
Pagina 190 - Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe ; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.