 | Education - 1823 - 624 pages
...If we have much, we are not at liberty to put it aside and say we should be better without it—if we have little, we are not at liberty to be dissatisfied...but we must not mistake them for standards of right. 1 may walk in the garden and take which flower pleases me—but I should be a fool if I trampled upon... | |
 | Education - 1827 - 404 pages
...statures. "There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and one star differeth from another in glory." Why do we not censure the sun for outshining...but we must not mistake them for standards of right. 1 may walk in the garden and take which flower pleases me — but I should be a fool if I trampled... | |
 | Caroline Fry - English essays - 1830 - 370 pages
...in the occupation of the latter ? If we have much, we are not at liberty to put it aside and say w<: should be better without it — if we have little,...but we must not mistake them for standards of right. I may walk in the garden and take which flower pleases me — but I should be a fool if I trampled... | |
 | Caroline Fry Wilson - 1832 - 280 pages
...statures. " There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and one star dinereth from another in glory." Why do we not censure the sun for outshining...but we must not mistake them for standards of right. I may walk in the garden and take which flower pleases me; but I should be a fool if I trampled upon... | |
 | Caroline Fry Wilson - 1832 - 284 pages
...censure the sun for outshining the stars, and the pale moon for having no light but what she borrows 1 Instead of settling for others what they ought to...but we must not mistake them for standards of right. I may walk in the garden and take which flower pleases me ; but I should be a fool if I trampled upon... | |
 | Caroline Fry - 1833 - 278 pages
...the purpose of Heaven in the former, and what the demand of Heaven in the occupation of the latter 1 If we have much, we are not at liberty to put it aside,...but we must not mistake them for standards of right. I may walk in the garden and take which flower pleases me ; but I should be a fool if I trampled upon... | |
 | Caroline Fry - English essays - 1837 - 284 pages
...surely we are not at liberty to say that an other has too much or too little of what God has given 1 We may have our preferences, but we must not mistake them for standards of right. I may walk in the garden and take which flowei pleases me ; but I should be a fool if I trampled upon... | |
 | American lady - Etiquette for women - 1849 - 154 pages
...the purpose of Heaven in the former, and what the demand of Heaven in the occupation of the latter 1 If we have much, we are not at liberty to put it aside,...too much, or too little, of what God has given ! We EASILY DECIDED. may have our preferences, but we must not mistake them for standards of right. Every... | |
 | Caroline Fry Wilson - 1867 - 510 pages
...surely we are not at liberty to say that another has too much or too little of what God has given t We may have our preferences, but we must not mistake them for standards of right. I may walk in the garden, and take which flower pleases me — but I should be a fool if I trampled... | |
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Instead of settling for others what they ought to be, and choosing for ourselves what we will be, would it not be better to examine the condition in which we are actually placed, and the faculties actually committed to us, and consider what was the purpose... 