Good Samaritans: Or, Biographical Illustrations of the Law of Human KindnessW.S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1883 - 392 pages |
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... influence of friends , take to " an ambitious and mercenary , or ignorantly zealous , divinity . " Some are allured to the trade of law , " grounding " their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity ...
... influence of friends , take to " an ambitious and mercenary , or ignorantly zealous , divinity . " Some are allured to the trade of law , " grounding " their purposes not on the prudent and heavenly contemplation of justice and equity ...
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... influence of such teaching is injurious not only to the pupil , but to the teacher himself , who gradually loses his early enthusiasm and earnestness , and finds his labour growing daily more irksome as it grows more mechanical . If it ...
... influence of such teaching is injurious not only to the pupil , but to the teacher himself , who gradually loses his early enthusiasm and earnestness , and finds his labour growing daily more irksome as it grows more mechanical . If it ...
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... , and make it a breach of the law to begin , with the hallowing influences of prayer and praise , the daily task of instructing the youthful mind , or to THE " LIBERAL " EDUCATION . 17 supplement the lessons 16 GOOD SAMARITANS .
... , and make it a breach of the law to begin , with the hallowing influences of prayer and praise , the daily task of instructing the youthful mind , or to THE " LIBERAL " EDUCATION . 17 supplement the lessons 16 GOOD SAMARITANS .
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... still rend , the Church of Christ . But , on the other hand , there is a theology which every wise - minded teacher will lose no opportunity INFLUENCE OF RELIGION . 19 of impressing upon the minds 18 GOOD SAMARITANS .
... still rend , the Church of Christ . But , on the other hand , there is a theology which every wise - minded teacher will lose no opportunity INFLUENCE OF RELIGION . 19 of impressing upon the minds 18 GOOD SAMARITANS .
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Or, Biographical Illustrations of the Law of Human Kindness William Henry Davenport Adams. INFLUENCE OF RELIGION . 19 of impressing upon the minds and hearts of his pupils . The creation of Man in the likeness ... INFLUENCE OF RELIGION. ...
Or, Biographical Illustrations of the Law of Human Kindness William Henry Davenport Adams. INFLUENCE OF RELIGION . 19 of impressing upon the minds and hearts of his pupils . The creation of Man in the likeness ... INFLUENCE OF RELIGION. ...
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Page 166 - Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
Page 75 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 102 - Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 401 - Tell them to work while it is called to-day, for the night cometh, when no man can work.
Page 174 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Page 278 - O'ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces ; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Page 32 - I wist, all their sport in the Park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 299 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient...
Page 299 - ... to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Page 80 - And there should be no greater comfort to christian persons than to be made like unto Christ, by suffering patiently adversities, troubles, and sicknesses. For he himself went not up to joy, but first he suffered pain ; he entered not into his glory before he was crucified.