The rhetoric of conversation, ed. by S. Jenner |
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acquaintance admiration allowed anecdotes better bouts-rimés brethren bring cerning character Christian church circle club consider conversation discourse Divine divine grace doctrines duty ears evangelical express faith faults feelings flattery friends give Gospel grace habit hear heard hearers heart Holy honour Hotel de Rambouillet ignorance intercourse John Ruskin kind ladies language listen Lord Madame Madame de Sévigné Madame du Deffand Madame Geoffrin manner matter ment mind Molière moral nature never observed occasion offence once opinion ourselves person piety pious praise principles question reason rebuke religion religious religious conversation remarks ribaldry Richard Baxter sacred Scripture secular silence sinner Sirach society sometimes soul speak speech spirit Stones of Venice strangers style talk talkers taste tell themes things thou thought tian tion tone tongue true truth vice virtue wisdom wise words
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Page 84 - Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 156 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 37 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 207 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 16 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 297 - For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
Page 69 - I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 297 - Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth ; yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Page 90 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 201 - If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.