The Ways of Life: Showing the Right Way and Wrong Way, Contrasting the High Way and the Low Way, the True Way and the False Way, the Upward Way and the Downward Way, the Way of Honor and the Way of Dishonor |
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... OF HOPES AND HELPS , MENTAL SCIENCE , ETC. New York : FOWLERS AND WELLS , PUBLISHERS , No. 308 BROADWAY . IN BOSTON : 142 Washington - St . } 1855 . PHILADELPHIA : No. 231 Arch - street . 2 1893 From the Library of Prof. A. P. PEABODY.
... OF HOPES AND HELPS , MENTAL SCIENCE , ETC. New York : FOWLERS AND WELLS , PUBLISHERS , No. 308 BROADWAY . IN BOSTON : 142 Washington - St . } 1855 . PHILADELPHIA : No. 231 Arch - street . 2 1893 From the Library of Prof. A. P. PEABODY.
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... A Mere Knowledge of Facts does not confer Power - A Higher Knowledge Necessary - Knowledge is not Culture - Mental Gormandizing - We Read Much and Thiuk Little - A Few viii CONTENTS . Think for the Many - Knowledge chiefly.
... A Mere Knowledge of Facts does not confer Power - A Higher Knowledge Necessary - Knowledge is not Culture - Mental Gormandizing - We Read Much and Thiuk Little - A Few viii CONTENTS . Think for the Many - Knowledge chiefly.
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... mental power than was necessary to conceive them . Which , then , was the easier ? Take the moral philosophers of our day , who give the world its true theories of life ; are their theories more difficult to practice than to form ? Many ...
... mental power than was necessary to conceive them . Which , then , was the easier ? Take the moral philosophers of our day , who give the world its true theories of life ; are their theories more difficult to practice than to form ? Many ...
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... mental lesson . These things are facts . Facts are always results ; they are effects of un- seen causes . Causes lie in principles , and are not seen ; nothing is visible but effects . Causes are concealed among the eternal things ; the ...
... mental lesson . These things are facts . Facts are always results ; they are effects of un- seen causes . Causes lie in principles , and are not seen ; nothing is visible but effects . Causes are concealed among the eternal things ; the ...
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... deeper devotion and a grander mental glory by - and - by ? Must not all fact - read- ers be thus preparing for sublimer realizations of piety and holier ascriptions of praise and adoration ? TWO KINDS OF FACTS . 81 It appears to me.
... deeper devotion and a grander mental glory by - and - by ? Must not all fact - read- ers be thus preparing for sublimer realizations of piety and holier ascriptions of praise and adoration ? TWO KINDS OF FACTS . 81 It appears to me.
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