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By their fruits, indeed, shall we know this community, the history of which furnishes as fine a commentary upon the benefit of good social training for the young example and precept happily keeping concert with the ordinary necessities and performances of life, the one supported by the manliest courage, the other guided by the noblest principle as any upon record.*
Then must the happy medium of a well regulated liberty be necessarily compelled to find shelter in some more civilized country: where social virtue, and that divine precept, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," are better understood.
The mail-clad itched for it, and sought it in advance. Manon demurred to that. What, did she doubt their word? then let her come along with them, or watch them at a distance. "Me?" said Manon with horror. "I would liever die than see it done." "Which yet you would have done." "Ay, for sore is my need. Times are changed." She had already forgotten her precept to Denys.
And at least, is not this an unusual gloss upon the eighth commandment? And what sort of comfort, guidance, or illumination did that precept afford my friend throughout these contentions? 'Thou shalt not steal. With all my heart! But AM I stealing? The truly quaint materialism of our view of life disables us from pursuing any transaction to an end.
Likewise, whereas a secondary very worthy use of our speech is to promote the good of our neighbour, and especially to edify him in piety, according to that wholesome precept of the Apostle, "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may administer grace unto the hearers."
It is possible, that I may be more unhappy from the due observation of the good doctor's general precept, than were I to yield the point; since what I call steadiness is deemed stubbornness, obstinacy, prepossession, by those who have a right to put what interpretation they please upon my conduct.
Why did Jesus Christ come from 'the men of the earth, as the Rabbis called all who had not learned to cover every plain precept with spiders' webs of casuistry?
By example he had the competent self-respect and unmistakable bearing of a gentleman, and by careful precept the speech of a liberally educated man. When he was seventeen, his father died of a twenty-four hours' pneumonia, leaving the son not so much stricken as bewildered, for their relations had been comradely rather than affectionate.
These cannot be substituted for it public worship, reading Christian books, bring a different class of feelings altogether into play. They are not to be excluded by it. They find their true foundation in it. A tree's branches stretch to the same circumference as its roots. What is the special need of this precept for this age? It is neglected in our modern life.
Gascoigne, now considered as not belonging to the Latona, was permitted to accompany him; and Jack found himself looking out of the window at which he had hung out his trousers upon the memorable occasion when the boatswain had to follow his own precept, of duty before decency.
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