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... error of neglecting to exercise it , in the discharge of their own appropriate duty . For they cannot get rid of their responsibility . It is to the father himself that the inspired sage addresses the precept : “ Train up the child in ...
... error of neglecting to exercise it , in the discharge of their own appropriate duty . For they cannot get rid of their responsibility . It is to the father himself that the inspired sage addresses the precept : “ Train up the child in ...
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... , both in time and in eternity ? But the error under consideration is open to rebuke , on the further ground of injustice . Parents have no right to expect , from ministers and teachers , what 6 BISHOP HOPKINS'S LECTURE .
... , both in time and in eternity ? But the error under consideration is open to rebuke , on the further ground of injustice . Parents have no right to expect , from ministers and teachers , what 6 BISHOP HOPKINS'S LECTURE .
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... error , so common in our day , I would next observe its absurdity . The training of the child in the way he should go , demands the principle of authority . First , the authority of God , as supreme , to which all others must be ...
... error , so common in our day , I would next observe its absurdity . The training of the child in the way he should go , demands the principle of authority . First , the authority of God , as supreme , to which all others must be ...
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... error of parents , in seeking to cast their responsibilities on others , and neglecting to employ for the benefit of their children the authority which God has expressly conferred , is not a solitary error , confined to the circle of ...
... error of parents , in seeking to cast their responsibilities on others , and neglecting to employ for the benefit of their children the authority which God has expressly conferred , is not a solitary error , confined to the circle of ...
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... error . Such is the spirit of the age , so actively at work throughout the civilized world . No wonder that the social duties , the maxims of domestic order and peace , the laws of parental and filial obligation , the course and ...
... error . Such is the spirit of the age , so actively at work throughout the civilized world . No wonder that the social duties , the maxims of domestic order and peace , the laws of parental and filial obligation , the course and ...
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Page 172 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 64 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 63 - The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder what must have been the amount of that bribe, in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment.
Page 63 - It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less.
Page 10 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 5 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 85 - And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise ; he calleth thee.
Page 152 - When winds are blowing strong. The traveller slaked His thirst from rill or gushing fount, and thanked The Naiad. Sunbeams, upon distant hills • Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly.
Page 84 - And when he heard that it •> was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
Page 49 - Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors, than in the monarchy which they attack; it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? and what can be done with a people who are their own masters, if they be not submissive to the Deity?