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Page 67
... supposed to be finished , and rest is permitted . Middle age is the season when we are expected to display the fruits which education had prepared and ripened . In this world , all of us were formed to be assistants to one another . The ...
... supposed to be finished , and rest is permitted . Middle age is the season when we are expected to display the fruits which education had prepared and ripened . In this world , all of us were formed to be assistants to one another . The ...
Page 76
... the young and unexperienced , who are amusing themselves with florid prospects of bliss . But to those who are now engaged in the middle of * IV . their course , who are supposed to be their 76 On the Duties belonging.
... the young and unexperienced , who are amusing themselves with florid prospects of bliss . But to those who are now engaged in the middle of * IV . their course , who are supposed to be their 76 On the Duties belonging.
Page 77
Hugh Blair, James Finlayson. IV . their course , who are supposed to be well SERMON acquainted with the world , and to know that they have to struggle in it with va- rious hardships ; firmness , vigour , and re- solution , are ...
Hugh Blair, James Finlayson. IV . their course , who are supposed to be well SERMON acquainted with the world , and to know that they have to struggle in it with va- rious hardships ; firmness , vigour , and re- solution , are ...
Page 140
... supposed to possess above us , accompanied with malignity towards those who possess them . This is uni- sally admitted to be one of the blackest passions in the human heart . In this world we depend much on one another ; and were ...
... supposed to possess above us , accompanied with malignity towards those who possess them . This is uni- sally admitted to be one of the blackest passions in the human heart . In this world we depend much on one another ; and were ...
Page 161
... hope , of heaven . But it has been sometimes supposed , that industry , as far as it is matter of duty , re- VOL . III . M gards IX . man . SERMON gards our spiritual concerns and [ 161 ] 6 all the day idle? Why stand.
... hope , of heaven . But it has been sometimes supposed , that industry , as far as it is matter of duty , re- VOL . III . M gards IX . man . SERMON gards our spiritual concerns and [ 161 ] 6 all the day idle? Why stand.
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