21 definitions
Abstinence (n.) is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
Action (n.) is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man’s nature.
Anger (n.) is a kind of transient hatred.
The Conscience (n.) is its own counsellor.
Excess (n.) is not the only thing which breaks men in their health, and in the comfortab’e enjoyment of themselves: but many are brought into a very ill and languishing habit of body by mere sloth ; and. sloth is in itself both a great sin, and the cause of many more.
Government (n.) is an art above the attainment of an ordinary genius.
Idleness (n.) is both a great sin, and the cause of many more.
Idolatry (n.) is certainly the first-bora of folly, the great and leading paradox; nay, the very abridgment and sum total of all absurdities.
Impatience (n.) is a quality sudden, eager and insatiable, which grpsps at all, and admits of no delay; scorning to wait God’s leisure, and attend humbly and dutifully upon the issues of His wise and just Providence.
Innocence (n.) is like polished armor; it adorns and it defends.