Man and his money: its use and abuseJ. Nisbet & Company, 1855 - 279 pages |
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... whole social system ; it acts in morals as a suspension of the law of gravitation would act in physics . Such selfishness detaches man from his great centre , God , and leaves him , like a wandering star , to hasten onward to extinction ...
... whole social system ; it acts in morals as a suspension of the law of gravitation would act in physics . Such selfishness detaches man from his great centre , God , and leaves him , like a wandering star , to hasten onward to extinction ...
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... whole . Others , again , have prescribed rules upon the subject of money , and its use , which it would be difficult or impossible to practise . They would fetter and restrain us by laws and rates where He who gave us the gospel has ...
... whole . Others , again , have prescribed rules upon the subject of money , and its use , which it would be difficult or impossible to practise . They would fetter and restrain us by laws and rates where He who gave us the gospel has ...
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... whole world , as well as of God . The millionaire , and the in- mate of an almshouse , the Briton and the Esquimaux , are equally to find their religion there ; and to fix upon any single ratio as being applicable to all these , seems ...
... whole world , as well as of God . The millionaire , and the in- mate of an almshouse , the Briton and the Esquimaux , are equally to find their religion there ; and to fix upon any single ratio as being applicable to all these , seems ...
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... whole , he was taught how easily riches amassed with care might be dissipated in spite of us , and he therefore tried , as all should do , to modify his love of money . It is obvious , moreover , that the spirit of our age is turned ...
... whole , he was taught how easily riches amassed with care might be dissipated in spite of us , and he therefore tried , as all should do , to modify his love of money . It is obvious , moreover , that the spirit of our age is turned ...
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... whole tribes , to the scene where the midnight assassin perpetrates his deed of blood for some booty which will scarcely purchase more than a mess of pottage , one passion goads men - one demon reigns ; at the bid- ding of covetousness ...
... whole tribes , to the scene where the midnight assassin perpetrates his deed of blood for some booty which will scarcely purchase more than a mess of pottage , one passion goads men - one demon reigns ; at the bid- ding of covetousness ...
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Page 52 - And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 51 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 209 - A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Page 78 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming ; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 260 - Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity : for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 88 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me, and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 119 - But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Page 51 - If I have made gold my hope, Or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because mine hand had gotten much...
Page 76 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers. And such she was; her daughters had their dowers From spoils of nations, and the exhaustless East Poured in her lap all gems in sparkling showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deemed their dignity increased.
Page 52 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.