 | Isaac Watts - Education - 1801 - 482 pages
...the needle : but let all of them make their occasional remarks or inquiries. This will guard a great deal of that precious time from modish trifling, impertinence...be directed to some profitable point of knowledge of practice, so far as may be done with decency ; and let not the discourse and the hours be suffered... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 590 pages
...the needle : but let all of them make their occasional remarks or inquiries. This will guard a great deal of that precious time from modish trifling, impertinence...lead the conversation, let it be directed to some proJitable point of knowledge or practice, so far as may be done with decency ; and let not the discourse... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Education - 1813 - 368 pages
...the needle ; but let all of them make their occasional remarks or enquiries. This will guard a great deal of that precious time from modish trifling, impertinence...repentance. Observe this rule in general, whensoever it lies iu your power to lead the conversation, let it be directed to some profitable point of knowledge or... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Education - 1814 - 524 pages
...Xhe needle; but let all of them make their occasional remarks or enquiries. This will guard a great deal of that precious time from modish trifling, impertinence,...may be done with decency; and let not the discourse and the hours be suffered to run loose without aim or design : and when a subject is started, pass... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...the needle : but let all of them make their occasional remarks or enquiries. This will guard a great deal -of that precious time from modish, trifling,...painful repentance. Observe this rule in general, wlxnever it lies in your power to -lead the conversation, let it be directed to someprofitable point... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...enquiries. This will guard a great deal of that precious time from modish trifling, impeitiiifnce, or scandal, which might otherwise afford matter for...painful repentance. Observe this rule, in general, whenever it lies in your power to lead the conversation, let it be directed to some profitable point... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Education - 1819 - 518 pages
...modish trifling, impertinenee, or seandal, whieh might otherwise afford matter for painful repentanee. Observe this rule in general, whensoever it lies In your power to lead the eonversation, let it be direeted to some profitable point of knowledge or praetiee, so far as may be... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Education - 1821 - 476 pages
...the needle ; but let all of them make their occasional remarks or inquiries. This will guard a great deal of that precious time from modish trifling, impertinence,...may be done with decency; and let not the discourse and the hours be suffered to run loose without aim or design : and when a subject is started, pass... | |
 | Isaac Watts - English literature - 1821 - 206 pages
...the needle; but let all of them make their occasional remarks or inquiries. This will guard a good deal of that precious time from modish trifling impertinence...might otherwise afford matter for painful repentance. Improvement of the Mind,part I. Exhortation agzinsi Excessive Sorrow. Let not your thoughts dwell continually... | |
 | Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...wonder we form not right conclusions; because we do not survey the whole of any subject or argument. Whensoever it lies in your power to lead the conversation,...may be done with decency ; and let not the discourse and the hours be suffered to run loose without aim or design : and when a subject is started, pass... | |
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Observe this rule in general; whensoever it lies in your power to lead the conversation, let it be directed to some profitable point of knowledge or practice, so far as may be done with decency; and let not the discourse and the hours be suffered to run... 
