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... sermon . EQUITY . 1. EQUITY in law is the same that the spirit is in religion , what every one pleases to make it ; sometimes they go according to conscience , sometimes according to law , sometimes ac- cording to the rule of court . 2 ...
... sermon . EQUITY . 1. EQUITY in law is the same that the spirit is in religion , what every one pleases to make it ; sometimes they go according to conscience , sometimes according to law , sometimes ac- cording to the rule of court . 2 ...
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... sermon , if he cozen and cheat as soon as he comes home . On the other side morality must not be without religion ; for if so , it may change , as I see convenience . Religion must govern it . He that has not religion to govern his ...
... sermon , if he cozen and cheat as soon as he comes home . On the other side morality must not be without religion ; for if so , it may change , as I see convenience . Religion must govern it . He that has not religion to govern his ...
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... sermons , enjoys himself as much as he that hears plays ; and could he that loves plays endeavour to love sermons , possibly he might bring himself to it as well as to any other pleasure . At first it may seem harsh and tedious , but ...
... sermons , enjoys himself as much as he that hears plays ; and could he that loves plays endeavour to love sermons , possibly he might bring himself to it as well as to any other pleasure . At first it may seem harsh and tedious , but ...
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... You must sow your wheat in October , you must reap your wheat in August , & c . • 9. The main argument why they would have two sermons a day , is , because they have two meals a day ; the soul must be 130 TABLE TALK .
... You must sow your wheat in October , you must reap your wheat in August , & c . • 9. The main argument why they would have two sermons a day , is , because they have two meals a day ; the soul must be 130 TABLE TALK .
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... sermons to do one with another ? 10. The things between God and man are but a few , and those , forsooth , we must be told often of ; but things between man and man are many ; those I hear not of above twice a year , at the assizes , or ...
... sermons to do one with another ? 10. The things between God and man are but a few , and those , forsooth , we must be told often of ; but things between man and man are many ; those I hear not of above twice a year , at the assizes , or ...
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Page 180 - And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me?
Page 59 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations ; a practice for which they will be praised by men of sense.
Page 93 - Why, sir, if the fellow does not think as he speaks, he is lying : and I see not what honour he can propose to himself from having the character of a liar. But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Page 66 - I hate by-roads in education. Education is as well known, and has long been as well known as ever it can be. Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it ? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss (') was an instance of early cultivation,...
Page 106 - talk no more of that. You are, perhaps, the worst — eh, eh ! " — Goldsmith was eagerly attempting to interrupt him, when Garrick went on, laughing ironically, " Nay, you will always look like a gentleman ; but I am talking of being well or ill drest."
Page 26 - But is not the fear of death natural to man?" JOHNSON. " So much so, sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of it.
Page 22 - You never open your mouth but with intention to give pain ; and you have often given me pain, not from the power of what you said, but from seeing your intention.
Page 146 - It is rarely well executed. They only who live with a man can write his life with any genuine exactness and discrimination ; and few people who have lived with a man know what to remark about him.
Page 150 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the Judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning ; must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Page 95 - I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others, as sensibly as many say they do." JOHNSON. "Sir, don't be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling.