 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
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1858 - 482 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, even in death, and, from decay, calls up beauty and divinity; makes an instrument... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - 1859 - 448 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...existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life, in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture... | |
 | Guillaume (de Deguilleville.) - 1859 - 136 sider
...when all earthly hopes vanim, and throws over the decay — the deftruftion of exiftence — the moft gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death,...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity, making torture and forrow the means of afcent to Paradife." Advertifement to the Reader. translation... | |
 | Guillaume (de Deguileville) - 1859 - 138 sider
...when all earthly hopes vaniih, and throws over the decay — the deftruction of exiftence — the moft gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in death,...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity, making torture and forrow the means of afcent to Paradife." Advertifement to the Reader. tranflation... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 sider
...religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness ; crcatec now hopes when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over...the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of allights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption anii decay calls up beauty and divinity... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 542 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...existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life in death, and calls out from corruption and decay beauty and everlasting glory." — SIB HUMPHRY DAVY.... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 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...existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life in death, and calls out from corruption and decay beauty and everlasting glory." — SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling, Henry Lunettes - 1860 - 496 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, even in death, and, from decay, calls up beauty and divinity; makes an instrument... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 340 sider
...prefer a firm religious belief to everr other blessing. For it makes life a discipline Weak Belief. 97 of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes...existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life in death, and calls out from corruption and decay beauty and everlasting glory. Twenty years ago, it... | |
 | Cosmos - 1861 - 376 sider
...blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity." — SIR HUMPHREY DAVY — Salmonia. MENTION has been made of the certificate of marriage, or marriage... | |
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