Self-knowledge:: A Treatise, Shewing the Nature and Benefit of the Important Science, and the Way to Attain It. : Intermixed with Various Reflections and Observations on Human NatureS. Crowder, 1794 - 240 páginas |
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... pleasure look back upon a " million of ages hence . For know , O << my foul , that thy felf consciousness and " reflecting faculties will not leave thee " with Major fum , et ad majora natus , quam quod fim corporis mancipium : quod ...
... pleasure look back upon a " million of ages hence . For know , O << my foul , that thy felf consciousness and " reflecting faculties will not leave thee " with Major fum , et ad majora natus , quam quod fim corporis mancipium : quod ...
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... pleasure or torment to thee " in that feparate state of existence * . " ( 2. ) In order to a full acquaintance with ourselves , we must endeavour to know not only what we are , but what we Shall be . And O ! what different creatures ...
... pleasure or torment to thee " in that feparate state of existence * . " ( 2. ) In order to a full acquaintance with ourselves , we must endeavour to know not only what we are , but what we Shall be . And O ! what different creatures ...
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... pleasures , animated with diffe- rent hopes , and affected by different motives , and Jiftinguished by as different tempers and inclinations , if they were not of the fame kind . So that I am ry ready to believe , that there is not a ...
... pleasures , animated with diffe- rent hopes , and affected by different motives , and Jiftinguished by as different tempers and inclinations , if they were not of the fame kind . So that I am ry ready to believe , that there is not a ...
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... pleasure , which arifes from a confcioufnefs of having acted right . It certainly will . And the difficulties you now dread will enhance your future fatis- faction . But think again how you will bear the reflections of your own mind ...
... pleasure , which arifes from a confcioufnefs of having acted right . It certainly will . And the difficulties you now dread will enhance your future fatis- faction . But think again how you will bear the reflections of your own mind ...
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... pleasure of it is a great " deal over - rated ; you will certainly be " difappointed . It is a falfe appearance " that now deceives you . And what will " you think of yourfelf when it is past , " and you come to reflect seriously on ...
... pleasure of it is a great " deal over - rated ; you will certainly be " difappointed . It is a falfe appearance " that now deceives you . And what will " you think of yourfelf when it is past , " and you come to reflect seriously on ...
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Página 26 - But now, O Lord, thou art our father ; We are the clay, and thou our potter; And we all are the work of thy hand.
Página 147 - 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.
Página 200 - In the first place, let them consider well what are the characters which they bear among their enemies. Our friends very often flatter us as much as our own hearts.
Página 87 - And, of all impostures, selfdeception is the most dangerous, because least suspected. Now, unless we examine this point narrowly, we shall never come to the bottom of it ; and unless we come at the true spring and real motive of our actions, we shall never be able to form a right judgment of them ; and they may appear very different in our own eye, and in the eye of the world, from what they do in the eye of God. ' For the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance ;...
Página 72 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ; for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Página 72 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Página 48 - A wise man hath his foibles, as well as a fool. But the difference between them is, that the foibles of the one are known to himself, and concealed from the world ; the foibles of the other are known to the world, and concealed from himself.
Página 101 - The right government of the thoughts requires no small art, vigilance, and resolution ; but it is a matter of such vast importance to the peace and improvement of the mind, that it is worth while to be at some pains about it. A man that hath...
Página 125 - To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Página 106 - ... all malignant and revengeful thoughts. A spirit of revenge is the very spirit of the devil ; than which nothing makes a man more like him, and nothing can be more opposite to the temper which Christianity was designed to promote. If your revenge be not satisfied, it will give you torment now ; if it be, it will give you greater hereafter. None is a greater self-tormentor than a malicious and revengeful man, who turns the poison of his own temper in upon himself.