...and submission in us, and of cultivating a capacity to resist temptations, is of profound importance: "Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners;...better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate . . . [The] only knowledge . . . which is of any avail to us, is that which teaches us our duty, or...

...depart from evil is the only wisdom which man should aspire after, as his work and happiness. . . . Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners,...making the heart better. This is the field assigned to us to cultivate; how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. Sermon No. 15 The force of...

...And ofttimes make the spirit weep, Complaining like the prison'd bird, " I can't get out !" . . T. OUR province is virtue and religion, life and manners,...making the heart better. This is the field assigned to us to cultivate. — Bishop Butler. THE power, whether of painter or poet, to describe rightly what...

...prove that ' morals ' were not represented by him as ' man's only business ;' for does he not say, ' Our province' is virtue and religion, life and manners,...making the heart better. ' This is the field assigned to us to cultivate ; how much it has ' lain neglected is indeed astonishing ' ? ' He who should find...

...that which related to morals. Our province is virtue [and religion} life and manners ; the fcience of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field affigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed aftonifhing. Virtue is demonftrably...