A Voice to Youth: Addressed to Young Men and Young LadiesGrosh and Hutchinson, 1839 - 424 pages |
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... manner , we will converse upon those things which pertain to your future success in life . I am aware that , upon the ears of some youth , the word advice grates harshly . But I attribute this dislike more to the improper manner in ...
... manner , we will converse upon those things which pertain to your future success in life . I am aware that , upon the ears of some youth , the word advice grates harshly . But I attribute this dislike more to the improper manner in ...
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... manner . 1. Society has claims on the Young .-- In every civilized and well regulated community , there are certain important duties , of a public and general character , which must be properly discharged , to insure the safety and ...
... manner . 1. Society has claims on the Young .-- In every civilized and well regulated community , there are certain important duties , of a public and general character , which must be properly discharged , to insure the safety and ...
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... manner can youth of either sex , pass an evening more usefully , than in perusing some en- tertaining and valuable publication , for their own edification and that of the family circle ? The habit of reading can become so deeply settled ...
... manner can youth of either sex , pass an evening more usefully , than in perusing some en- tertaining and valuable publication , for their own edification and that of the family circle ? The habit of reading can become so deeply settled ...
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... manner in which they are read . Te accom- plish the object of reading , it is evidently neces- sary that you should obtain the scope of the ideas of the author you are perusing . You should be- come familiar with the manner and ...
... manner in which they are read . Te accom- plish the object of reading , it is evidently neces- sary that you should obtain the scope of the ideas of the author you are perusing . You should be- come familiar with the manner and ...
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... manner . We frequently discover individu- als unskilled in letters , with little acquaintance with books , who yet possess a large fund of use- ful knowledge , and are well informed on a great variety of topics connected with human ...
... manner . We frequently discover individu- als unskilled in letters , with little acquaintance with books , who yet possess a large fund of use- ful knowledge , and are well informed on a great variety of topics connected with human ...
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A Voice to Youth, Addressed to Young Men and Young Ladies John Mather 1805-1880 [From Ol Austin No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 151 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep : so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 420 - ... and beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue, and to virtue, knowledge, and to knowledge, temperance, and to temperance, patience, and to patience, godliness, and to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 103 - Which but to guess a Newton made immortal ?— " If so, how each sage atom laughs at me, " Who think a clod inferior to a man ! " If art to form, and counsel to conduct, " And that with greater far than human skill, " Resides not in each block, — a Godhead reigns...
Page 239 - Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity ; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house and gathers sweetness from every flower...
Page 404 - My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Page 329 - O, wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us an' foolish notion: what airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, and ev'n Devotion!
Page 157 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 263 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel, with a double relish.
Page 278 - Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go; lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul.
Page 48 - I have carefully and regularly perused these Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion, that the volume, independently of its divine origin, contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.