This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...I think you had better say nothing on this subject. If men of fifty can, in all essential points, be beautiful examples to girls of ten, --in gentleness, in patience, in humility, in kindness, and so forth, --and all the more impressively for the wide interval between them, why, I suppose Jesus Christ may be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...I think you had better say nothing on this subject. If men of fifty can, in all essential points, be beautiful examples to girls of ten, --in gentleness, in patience, in humility, in kindness, and so forth, --and all the more impressively for the wide interval between them, why, I suppose Jesus Christ may be as much to his disciples." " But, again," urged Fellowes to me, " you, like So many men, seem to lay such stress on the superiority of the morality of the New Testament. I cannot see it. I confess, with Mr. Foxton and many more, that it seems to me that it has not such a very great advan tage over that of many heathen moralists who have said the same things, --Plato, for example." I replied, that, of course, it would be of no avail to affirm in general (what I was yet convinced was true), that the New Testament inculcated a system of ethics much more just and comprehensive than any other volume in the world. I told him, however, that I thought he would not deny that its manner of conveying ethical truth was unique; that it not only contained more admirable and varied summaries of duty than any other book whatever, but that we should seek in vain in any other for such a profusion of just maxims and weighty sentiments, expressed with such comprehensive brevity, or illustrated with so much beauty and pathos. I remarked that, if he would be pleased to do as I had once done, --compile a selection of the principal precepts and maxims from the most admirable ethical works of antiquity (those of Aristotle, for example), and compare them with two or three of the summaries of similar precepts in the New Testament, --he would at once feel how much more vivid, touching, animated, and even comprehensive, was the Scriptural expression of the same truths. But I...
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Good+ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Black embossed cloth w/gilt lettering on spine. Some wear at spine ends & cors., light soil, one and a half inch tear at top frt. gutter, slightly cocked. Innards clean & tight w/name on FFEP. 452 pp.
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