Sermons ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author, Volume 3T. Cadell; F.C. & J Rivington [& others], 1822 - Presbyterian Church |
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... fortunes ; of the wealth which he is to acquire , and of the advance- ment to which he is to rise in the world . What may justly be said to him by his tutors and instructors , is equally applicable to us all under our present state of ...
... fortunes ; of the wealth which he is to acquire , and of the advance- ment to which he is to rise in the world . What may justly be said to him by his tutors and instructors , is equally applicable to us all under our present state of ...
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... fortune , impairing their constitution , or disgracing their character ? Vice is not of such a nature that we can say to it , Hitherto shalt thou come , and no farther . Having once entered into its territories , it is not in our power ...
... fortune , impairing their constitution , or disgracing their character ? Vice is not of such a nature that we can say to it , Hitherto shalt thou come , and no farther . Having once entered into its territories , it is not in our power ...
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... fortune . In order to support that expense , he is obliged to have recourse to law and dishonourable methods of gain , which originally he despised . To cover these , he is forced upon arts of dissimulation and fraud . One instance of ...
... fortune . In order to support that expense , he is obliged to have recourse to law and dishonourable methods of gain , which originally he despised . To cover these , he is forced upon arts of dissimulation and fraud . One instance of ...
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... fortune , and the fickle humours of men . For it is by these he subsists , and among these his happiness is sought ; according as his passions determine him to pursue pleasure , riches , or preferments . Having no fund within . himself ...
... fortune , and the fickle humours of men . For it is by these he subsists , and among these his happiness is sought ; according as his passions determine him to pursue pleasure , riches , or preferments . Having no fund within . himself ...
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... fortune ? Is that man free , let his outward condition be ever so splendid , whom his imperious passions detain at their call , whom they send forth at their pleasure to drudge and toil , and to beg his only enjoyment from the ...
... fortune ? Is that man free , let his outward condition be ever so splendid , whom his imperious passions detain at their call , whom they send forth at their pleasure to drudge and toil , and to beg his only enjoyment from the ...
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