Self-knowledge: A Treatise; Shewing the Nature and Benefit of that Important Science, and the Way to Attain It. Intermixed with Various Reflections and Observations on Human Nature. By John Mason, A.M.William Sleater, 1767 - 243 עמודים |
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... whose final happiness he defires and feeks . - ( 3 . ) Other Knowledge is very apt to make a man vain ; this always keeps him humble . Nay , it is for want of this knowledge that men are vain of that they have . Knowledge puffeth up - a ...
... whose final happiness he defires and feeks . - ( 3 . ) Other Knowledge is very apt to make a man vain ; this always keeps him humble . Nay , it is for want of this knowledge that men are vain of that they have . Knowledge puffeth up - a ...
עמוד 79
... whose temper seemed to be all love and sweetness , is a memorable inftance how difficult a thing it is for a man at all times to know his own fpirit ; and that that paffion , which feems to have the leaft power over his mind , may on ...
... whose temper seemed to be all love and sweetness , is a memorable inftance how difficult a thing it is for a man at all times to know his own fpirit ; and that that paffion , which feems to have the leaft power over his mind , may on ...
עמוד 89
... whose business it was to transmit his character impartially to fu- ture ages . And in what other refpects Mr. Dry- den may prefer Plutarch to Seneca , ( which he does with much zeal in his Preface to ` Plutarch's Lives ) yet it must be ...
... whose business it was to transmit his character impartially to fu- ture ages . And in what other refpects Mr. Dry- den may prefer Plutarch to Seneca , ( which he does with much zeal in his Preface to ` Plutarch's Lives ) yet it must be ...
עמוד 90
... whose commendations a wife man would rather despise than court . ' Ex- f amine but the fize of people's sense , and the condition of their understanding , and will never be fond of popularity , nor you afraid of cenfure ; nor folicitous ...
... whose commendations a wife man would rather despise than court . ' Ex- f amine but the fize of people's sense , and the condition of their understanding , and will never be fond of popularity , nor you afraid of cenfure ; nor folicitous ...
עמוד 106
... whose eye they are abominable . Our Saviour warns us against these as a kind of fpiritual fornication * , and incon- fiftent with that purity of heart , which his Gospel requires . ( 9. ) Take care how you too much in- dulge gloomy and ...
... whose eye they are abominable . Our Saviour warns us against these as a kind of fpiritual fornication * , and incon- fiftent with that purity of heart , which his Gospel requires . ( 9. ) Take care how you too much in- dulge gloomy and ...
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