 I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others, be it genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes...  The Cottager's monthly visitor - Side 1911831Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1850 - 704 sider
...useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing, for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...the ladder of ascent to paradise, and far above all combination of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions, palms and amaranths, the gardens... | |
 | 1850 - 590 sider
...discipline of goodness — creates new hopes when all earthly ones vanish — throws over the decay of existence the most gorgeous of all lights — awakens life even in death — makes even torture and shame the ladder of ascent to paradise — and far above all combinations... | |
 | 1852 - 840 sider
...useful to me, 1 should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakes life even in death, and from corruption and decay, calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1852 - 393 sider
...useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, calling up the most delightful visions, where the sensualist and skeptic view only gloom, decay, and... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1852 - 636 sider
...to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes, throws over the destruction of existence the most gorgeous of...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity. — Sir Humphrey Davy. MOKAL USE OF THE SEA. THE sea has yet another kind of moral and religious use,... | |
 | 1852 - 626 sider
...to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes, throws over the destruction of existence the most gorgeous of...and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity.—Sir Humphrey Davy. MORAL USE OF THE SEA. THE sea has yet another kind of moral and religious... | |
 | Charlotte Eliza Sargeant - 1852 - 234 sider
...believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ;...destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." Then, after... | |
 | Samuel Miller - 1852 - 242 sider
...vanish;—throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most precious of all lights;—awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay...and divinity;— makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ;—and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls... | |
 | The Free Church Magazine.january-December 1852.New Series.-VOL.I - 1852 - 588 sider
...believe most useful, I should prefer я firm religious belief to every «ther blessing. This makes up a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay and destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, and brings up the most delightful of... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1853 - 400 sider
...useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, calling up the most delightful visions, where the sensualist and skeptic view only gloom, decay, and... | |
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