 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 pages
...neighbour as ourselves, and a principle ofsur.ii potency as to he likely to engross tbe mind and turn il from the motives, which it should be the great business of education to cherish and render predominant. — We readily agree with the author, tii it the principle of emulation is questionable and dangerous... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1819 - 500 pages
...neighbour as ourselves, and a principle of such potency as to be likely to engross the mind and turn it from the motives, which it should be the great business of education to cherish and render predominant.—We readily agree with the author, that the principle of emulation is questionable and... | |
 | Thomas Babington - Christian education - 1826 - 296 pages
...Christian morals, that no merits could atone for it. I cannot but think emulation an unhallowed principle of action ; — as scarcely, if at all, to be disjoined...Mr. Gisborne's remarks upon it, in his " Duties of Women." If emulation is an unhallowed motive, it cannot innocently be employed, whatever good effects... | |
 | Thomas Babington - Christian education - 1826 - 294 pages
...and envy, from pride and contention ;—incompatible with loving our neighbour as ourselves;—and a principle of such potency as to be likely to engross...Mr. Gisborne's remarks upon it, in his " Duties of Women." If emulation is an unhallowed motive, it cannot innocently be employed, whatever good effects... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - Mothers - 1833 - 312 pages
...and is a very powerful motive to exertion. I cannot but think emulation a very unhallowed principle of action, as scarcely, if at all, to be disjoined...namely, a sense of duty, and gratitude, and love to God. F 2 If emulation is an unhallowed motive, it cannot innocently be employed, whatever good effects may... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Christian sociology - 1849 - 250 pages
...Christian morals, that no merits could atone for it. I cannot but think emulation an unhallowed principle of action, as scarcely, if at all, to be disjoined...Mr. Gisborne's remarks upon it in his ' Duties of Women.' If emulation is an unhallowed motive, it cannot Fitzosborne. — Some of the evangelicals are... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1850 - 244 pages
...contention ; incompatible with loving our neighbour as ourselves : and a principle of such potencv as to be likely to engross the mind, and turn it habitually...Mr. Gisborne's remarks upon it in his ' Duties of Women.' If emulation is an unhallowed motive, it cannot Fitzosborne. — Some of the evangelicals are... | |
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Christian morals, that no merits could atone for it. I cannot but think emulation an unhallowed principle of action ; — as scarcely, if at all, to be disjoined from jealousy and envy, from pride and contention ; — incompatible with loving our neighbour... 