Letters on the Importance, Duty, and Advantages of Early Rising: Addressed to Heads of Families, the Man of Business, the Lover of Nature, the Student, and the Christian. ...Wells and Lilly, 1825 - 218 páginas |
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... by conveying adula- tion in the very language which they employ to reprehend it . If praise could produce in your mind those unhappy effects which often attend it , you would long ago have been the victim of its fascination ; FOR LABRAFT.
... by conveying adula- tion in the very language which they employ to reprehend it . If praise could produce in your mind those unhappy effects which often attend it , you would long ago have been the victim of its fascination ; FOR LABRAFT.
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... effects will be ex- tended to the succeeding generation , on which you so often look with a paternal and anxious interest . You will guess that I re- fer to the many , many hours consumed in bed , instead of being devoted to the ...
... effects will be ex- tended to the succeeding generation , on which you so often look with a paternal and anxious interest . You will guess that I re- fer to the many , many hours consumed in bed , instead of being devoted to the ...
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... effect a similar victory , as you have been unintentionally the means of confirming them in their error . It is not unlikely that , ere this , you have smiled at the importance which I appear to attach to what has seldom occupied your ...
... effect a similar victory , as you have been unintentionally the means of confirming them in their error . It is not unlikely that , ere this , you have smiled at the importance which I appear to attach to what has seldom occupied your ...
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... effects are confined to the individual ; but when placed at the head of a family , there is the double responsibility which is attached to particular and relative guilt . The influence which ought to be exerted over others , to in- duce ...
... effects are confined to the individual ; but when placed at the head of a family , there is the double responsibility which is attached to particular and relative guilt . The influence which ought to be exerted over others , to in- duce ...
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... effect all that could be desired from such an invention . Only suppose , for a moment , a man engaged in some impor- tant undertaking , which requires the exer- tion of all his powers ; to which he must bring all the stores of memory ...
... effect all that could be desired from such an invention . Only suppose , for a moment , a man engaged in some impor- tant undertaking , which requires the exer- tion of all his powers ; to which he must bring all the stores of memory ...
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Letters on the Importance, Duty, and Advantages of Early Rising: Addressed ... Alfred Cecil Buckland Visualização integral - 1819 |
Letters on the Importance, Duty, and Advantages of Early Rising: Addressed ... Alfred Cecil Buckland Visualização integral - 1819 |
Letters on the Importance, Duty, and Advantages of Early Rising: Addressed ... Alfred Cecil Buckland Visualização integral - 1825 |
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Página 115 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Página 112 - And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians...
Página 70 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Página 123 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes, became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich...
Página 103 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Página 114 - The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary : [•TO He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Página 113 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake : for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow...
Página 112 - Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me. For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Página 71 - O, how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields ! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, » And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of Heaven, O, how canst thou renounce^ and hope to be forgiven ! These charms shall work thy soul's eternal health, And love, and gentleness, and joy,...
Página 76 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness to render lightsome^...