 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
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 188 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...calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of fortune, and shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes,... | |
 | 1856 - 604 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. GOD'S LOVE. Not as the world loves doth God love. They love to-day and hate to-morrow... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 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...calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of fortune, and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 sider
...for it makes life a discipline of goodness — ereates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; aud throws over the decay, the destruction of existence,...even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up heauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1857 - 444 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 192 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 hghts ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1857 - 436 sider
...useful to me, I should prefer a jftrm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of ail lights, calling up the most delightful visions, where the sensualist and skeptic view only gloom,... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1857 - 442 sider
...most useful to me, I should prefer afirm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of ail lights, calling up the most delightful visions, where the sensualist and skeptic view only gloom,... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1857 - 506 sider
...belief, to every other blessing, for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hope, when earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay, the...destruction, of existence, the most gorgeous of all light ; awakens life, e^en in death, and, from decay, calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 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 destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of al! lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption an<* decay calls up beauty and divinity... | |
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