A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Reverend John Thornton Kirkland, ...: Delivered in the Church on Church Green, May 3, 1840C.C. Little & J. Brown, 1840 - 104 strani |
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... duties . He gradually obtained and permanently secured a high standing in the class . He was thought by his class- mates to be most distinguished for his attainments in the languages and in the metaphysical department . At the close of ...
... duties . He gradually obtained and permanently secured a high standing in the class . He was thought by his class- mates to be most distinguished for his attainments in the languages and in the metaphysical department . At the close of ...
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... duty ; and many refuse to be alarmed , because they wish to be at ease . " Dr. Kirkland had the rare faculty , in his preaching , of intimating and suggesting much more than he directly inculcated and affirmed . This enabled him to ...
... duty ; and many refuse to be alarmed , because they wish to be at ease . " Dr. Kirkland had the rare faculty , in his preaching , of intimating and suggesting much more than he directly inculcated and affirmed . This enabled him to ...
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... applied philosophy , by being led to commanding stations and new points of view , whence the mind of a moralist can hardly fail to catch some fresh prospects of nature and duty . " F moralist , in the widest sense of that term 45.
... applied philosophy , by being led to commanding stations and new points of view , whence the mind of a moralist can hardly fail to catch some fresh prospects of nature and duty . " F moralist , in the widest sense of that term 45.
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... duty by thrusting the inferior officers of the College between himself and the rebellious host , to take the odium of the measures and bear the brunt of the battle . No. He never shrunk from responsibility . Though he was always in ...
... duty by thrusting the inferior officers of the College between himself and the rebellious host , to take the odium of the measures and bear the brunt of the battle . No. He never shrunk from responsibility . Though he was always in ...
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... communing with the illustrious dead . No. He prized both ; and he knew how to use and get good from them both . He felt that he was one of the community , and that it was his duty to mingle with the world , and interest the community in 58.
... communing with the illustrious dead . No. He prized both ; and he knew how to use and get good from them both . He felt that he was one of the community , and that it was his duty to mingle with the world , and interest the community in 58.
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Stran 32 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes; put from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Stran 96 - On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
Stran 70 - This liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is a liberty to that only which is good, just and honest.
Stran 11 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government ; one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Stran 61 - A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
Stran 17 - I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful...
Stran 47 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Stran 46 - But, the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness...
Stran 95 - Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit. who in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.
Stran 103 - YE golden lamps of heaven, farewell, With all your feeble light ; Farewell, thou ever-changing moon, Pale empress of the night. 2 And thou, refulgent orb of day, In brighter flames arrayed, My soul, that springs beyond thy sphere, No more demands thine aid.