Philip Doddridge: His Life and Labors, a Centennial MemorialGould and Lincoln, 1858 - 222 páginas |
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... learning has been often surpassed ; his pulpit oratory was not resplendent ; his poetry , though pleasing , bore no traces of inspira- tion ; his power over the minds of others was not su- preme . Yet there was in him such a combination ...
... learning has been often surpassed ; his pulpit oratory was not resplendent ; his poetry , though pleasing , bore no traces of inspira- tion ; his power over the minds of others was not su- preme . Yet there was in him such a combination ...
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... learning at least equal to yourselves , and , we hope , partake of as much honesty ; -and , as to their performances , match them , and outpreach them , if you can . I wish that was the only strife between us . " * * But Even after the ...
... learning at least equal to yourselves , and , we hope , partake of as much honesty ; -and , as to their performances , match them , and outpreach them , if you can . I wish that was the only strife between us . " * * But Even after the ...
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... learning by the elder , who took the chair , and talked in Latin . " The next day he passed through the ordeal of defending a thesis , and on the 26th he was ordained . The whole proceedings , we are informed , were begun and fin- ished ...
... learning by the elder , who took the chair , and talked in Latin . " The next day he passed through the ordeal of defending a thesis , and on the 26th he was ordained . The whole proceedings , we are informed , were begun and fin- ished ...
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... learning , honor , and religion . Early drilled in the elements of literature by Mr. Stott , a long since forgotten minister who kept an acad- emy in London , Doddridge was removed , at ten years of age , to Kingston , to study within ...
... learning , honor , and religion . Early drilled in the elements of literature by Mr. Stott , a long since forgotten minister who kept an acad- emy in London , Doddridge was removed , at ten years of age , to Kingston , to study within ...
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... learning , some of them were glad , for the sake of a subsistence , to de- scend to the drudgery of initiating boys into their Greek and Latin accidence . Ralph Button , Canon of Christ Church , and Orator of the University of Oxford ...
... learning , some of them were glad , for the sake of a subsistence , to de- scend to the drudgery of initiating boys into their Greek and Latin accidence . Ralph Button , Canon of Christ Church , and Orator of the University of Oxford ...
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Página 130 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Página 128 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 87 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 12 - Big with the vanity of state; But transient is the smile of fate! A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
Página 78 - This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach...
Página 115 - Oh, sirs! as for the waters which are drawn from these springs, how sweetly soever they may taste to a curious mind that thirsts for them, or to an ambitious mind which thirsts for the...
Página 159 - When on the verge of life I stand, And view the scene on either hand, My spirit struggles with its clay, And longs to wing its flight away.
Página 157 - ... poor, the sick ; pleasant to write letters of necessary business by which any good can be done ; pleasant to go out and preach the gospel to poor souls, of which some are thirsting for it, and others dying without it; pleasant in the week-day to think how near another Sabbath is ; but, oh ! much, much more pleasant, to think how near eternity is, and how short the journey through this wilderness, and that it is but a step from earth to heaven.