Some preceptsof the Imitatio came into my mind: 'Be never wholly idle; read or write, pray or meditate, or work with diligence for the common needs.
To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed, at hours of meat, and of sleep, and of exercise, is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
Useful precepts are seldom lost, I believe, sister," said Sir Edward, with confidence.
Are precepts in religion, in morals, only for females?
Mrs. Tallboys took it up and said, "The preceptsof Scripture are founded on a state of society passed away.
The actualprecepts are broad principles, which are for all times, and apply to the hired servant as well as to the slave.
Hardy, a playwright who thanked Heaven that he knew the precepts of his art while preferring to follow the demands of his trade.
After, however, the troubles of the French domination and the war had come to an end, the precepts and examples of the new school failed to reassert themselves.
But the precepts of the gospel, or the Church, have at length imposed a pious servitude on the minds of Christians, and condemn them to expect, without a murmur, the last stroke of disease or the executioner.
This will make your heart rejoice, as you learn to follow the precepts of his system.
We will not praise Mohammed's moralprecepts as always of the superfinest sort; yet it can be said that there is always a tendency to good in them; that they are the true dictates of a heart aiming towards what is just and true.
Having spoken these words respecting the precepts of religion, he advanced to the town of Pâvâ, where all the Mallas prepared for him religious offerings of every kind.
It is with cheerful praise and generous pleasure that we express our admiration for many of the sayings, parables, and precepts attributed to Jesus.
Another draws the picture of a militant Jesus who could never endorse such precepts of indolence and resignation.
All these precepts might be understood as part of a simply moral code, closing with a kind of mystic meditation on the highest object of thought, and with a yearning after deliverance from all worldly ties.
The moral precepts which are embodied in this Catechism do the highest credit to the Parsis: Q.
Whenever there was a doubt as to ceremonies, precepts of religion, religious festivals, or anything of importance in the history of the ancient kingdoms, every one went to the chroniclers to ask for information.
A collection might be made from the precepts of this work, that in the purity of its ethics could scarcely be equalled from any other heathen author.
The principle upon which these precepts of conduct are founded is not etiquette or fashion, but respect for the sensibilities of others.
The precepts which are laid down for the use of his acquirements and his general conduct, resolve themselves into a strong recommendation of tact and caution.
Pagan virtues were strangely mingled with confused and ill-assimilated precepts of the Christian Church, while pagan vices wore a halo borrowed from the luster of the newly found and passionately welcomed poets of antiquity.
Let them patiently and faithfully lay the foundations of virtuous habits, and practice the lessons of wisdom and the precepts of religion--and in due time the prize shall be theirs.
Self- knowledge is the key to the precepts and doctrines of Scripture.
Moral precepts and promises have been given for better beings than ourselves.
Those precepts which are called moral are in reality directed against individuals, and do not by any means make for the happiness of such individuals.
He copied the precepts of the Bible in many of their essential features, and recognized its greatest teachers as inspired prophets.
But this distinction of precepts and counsels, and the theory of vows, and of works of supererogation, which Rome has based upon it, all Protestants have with one consent rejected, and that with abundant reason.
Each of these groups of precepts has kept the poor and the needy in a special way, though not exclusively, before the conscience.
Of the three, the first two contain the prohibitions and preceptsof the law; the third (xx.
The position of this command at the head of the long list of precepts which follows, is most significant and instructive.
I tasted the beauties of language, I breathed the spirit of freedom, and I imbibed from his precepts and examples the public and private sense of a man.
His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel; his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere.
Knowledge, thus obtained, has always something more popular and useful than that which is forced upon the mind by private precepts or solitary meditation.
Of this I shall speak with such latitude as may leave the province of the professor uninvaded, and shall not anticipate those precepts which it is his business to give and your duty to understand.
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are out of the reach of the rules of art--a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
In his dialogue on Oratory he makes Crassus say, that one of the first and most important precepts is to choose a proper model for our imitation.
Moral instructors took advantage of the popular sense of this tradition, to convey their precepts under those fables which gave speech to the whole brute creation.
If a reader examines Horace's Art of Poetry, he will find but very few precepts in it which he may not meet with in Aristotle, and which were not commonly known by all the poets of the Augustan age.
There are no precepts to teach the hidden graces, and all that secret power of poetry which passes to the heart.
With elegance of description and justness of precepts he had now exhibited boundless fertility of invention.
The one will appear obvious; that principles, maxims, or precepts so written, both strike the reader more strongly at first, and are more easily retained by him afterwards.
Each of the precepts and remarks naturally introduce the succeeding ones, so as to form an entire whole.
Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care.
The doctrine of the Esoterists teaches that, if man were really pure, and followed the precepts of the Gospel to the letter, he would become immortal, not in Paradise, but here below.
As it is probable that no Christian ever yet succeeded in following minutely the precepts of the Gospel, the Esoterists may be right.
It was not, however, until the end of the thirteenth century that an anonymous author conceived the idea of writing its principal precepts in an instructive poem, called "Le Dict de la Chace du Cerf.
The author mostly illustrates each of his precepts by examples from the life of contemporary personages.
O Naso, thou who dost sometimes cause, sometimes relieve, the passion full of anxiety, add this to thy precepts as well.
Therefore, when you shall seem to be curable by my skill, take care, and by my precepts shun the first approaches of idleness.
For as some dispositions vary, I am varying my precepts as well.
Some one may style my precepts harsh: I confess that they are harsh; but that you may recover, you will have to endure much that is to be lamented.
You will be satisfied thereon by my precepts sooner than you expect.
Do you only fight with a number of them, and unite my precepts together; from so many there will be a large amount.
The preceptsand teachings of Jesus are designed and adapted to harmonize the race of man into one happy family.
It has been shown that the example and precepts of Christ become the guide to conscience, and the rule of faith and practice for all believers.
Now, then, if faith in Christ would regulate the conscience according to his example and precepts, the only inquiry which remains is, Were the example and precepts of Christ a perfect rule of duty towards God and men?
Those who believe in and love Jesus will have their conscience regulated by his precepts and example.
The tendency of this is to lead him to abandon everything in himself, and in his course of life, which is condemned by the character and precepts of his god, and to conform himself to that standard which is approved by the same criterion.
Moreover, Christ has sanctioned these precepts by his own example.
The formal law, "the precepts learned by rote," became the important factor, while their purpose was lost to sight.
Nay more, the study of the Law became the duty of every man, and he who failed to live up to the precepts of the devotees of the Law, the Pharisean fellowships, was scorned as belonging to the lower class, am haaretz.
To them and to us the real Torah is the unwritten moral law which underlies the precepts of both the written law and its oral interpretation.
This verse forms the concluding sentence of the precepts for the Aaronitic priesthood and warns them as the guardians of the sanctuary to do nothing which might in the popular estimation degrade them or the divine cause intrusted to them.
If you had looked into history for the causes of events instead of getting the headings by heart, you would have found precepts for your guidance in this life.
Very well; the ambitious man who carries virtue's precepts into the arena when his antagonists have left them behind is behaving like a child.
Your onnur's commands is my duties; your precepts is my laws.
You practise what you believe to be the severest precepts of duty, with more than human fortitude.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "precepts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
