 ... but, as he goes on, he finds himself gradually gaining such ascendency over the vicious as to control them quite as effectually by milder means. At first, easily excited to anger or impatience, he frequently indulged in severe language when it was...  The Dublin Review - Stran 243uredili: - 1884Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1842 - 156 strani
...help forward such a work as we are speaking of! First, to find a person, neglecting to ask the Lord to set a watch before his mouth, and to keep the door of his lips, — led by degrees into the utterance of most uncharitable, and perhaps most false expressions against... | |
 | 1850 - 716 strani
...her appointed duties. He enters his schoolroom with an ejaculation that GOD will be pleased that day to set a watch before his mouth, and to keep the door of his lips, that with them he speak not unadvisedly. His monitors are there already in good time, getting out the apparatus... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1847 - 402 strani
...frequently indulged in severe language when it was unnecessary, — but by careful discipline he has learned to " set a watch before his mouth and to keep the door of his lips." Encouraged by one victory over himself, he is prepared for another. Having learned by selfdiscipline... | |
 | 1848 - 596 strani
...is made of it. We entreat Dr Burns, for his own sake, and for his companions' and brethren's sake, to set a watch before his mouth, and to keep the door of his lips. There is toomuch to be done in Canada, to allow of the evangelical agencies that are at work to be... | |
 | Thomas Cobbet - 1856 - 446 strani
...watchful regard, what and how we speak unto the Lord ? When David is to pray, he desires the Lord himself "to set a watch before his mouth, and to keep the door of his lips." The saints are very solicitous of what they speak in prayer to the Lord; they are sensible of such... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1859 - 376 strani
...frequently indulged in severe language when it was unnecessary,—but by careful discipline he has learned to " set a watch before his mouth and to keep the door of his lips." Encouraged by one victory over himself, he is prepared for another. Having learned by selfdiscipline... | |
 | Maria Wright - 1872 - 418 strani
...may be in righteousness, and nothing froward or perverse in them.1 Thus the Psalmist prayed the LORD to set a watch before his mouth, and to keep the door of his lips : and thus the apostle entreats us to offer " the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is,... | |
 | 1874 - 512 strani
...hardest flint. CHAPTEE XV. Of the way of Speaking which the Man of God used. IN speaking, however, he was able to control his spirit, and he learned...nor did it return to him in vain. Wherefore he spoke in'weight, number, and measure, as the necessary occasion demanded, for his speech was flavoured with... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1885 - 442 strani
...teaching. dulged in severe language when it was unnecessary, — but, by careful discipline, he has learned to "set a watch before his mouth, and to keep the door of his lips." Encouraged by one victory over himself, he is prepared for another. Having learned by self-discipline... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1893 - 362 strani
...frequently indulged in severe language when it was unnecessary,— but by careful discipline he has learned to "set a watch before his mouth and to keep the door of his lips." Encouraged by one victory over himself, he is prepared for another. Having learned by self-discipline... | |
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