 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 - Página 1911831Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 páginas
...useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; fur it nii'kt'8 We a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes -vanish ; and throws over the decav. the destruotir.™ nf existence, tlie most the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 páginas
...the decay, the destruction of exis1 tence, the most gorgeous of all lights, awakens life in death ; I and from corruption and decay, calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of fortune and of shame the ladder of a-'-eut to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...life a 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 of... | |
 | 1854 - 594 páginas
...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...and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to paradise; and far above nil combination of earthly hopes; calls up the... | |
 | Pocket companion - 1854 - 118 páginas
...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 from corruption and decay, calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture... | |
 | 1879 - 444 páginas
...every other blessing : for it makes life a discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes when all other hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction...; awakens life even in death, and from corruption ,'tnd decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of ill-fortune and shame the ladder... | |
 | 1894 - 868 páginas
...me, I should picfer a firm religious belief to every other blessing. For it makes life a disciplino of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay and destruction of life the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from decoy... | |
 | 1855 - 616 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 838 páginas
...Humphrey Davy, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...beauty and divinity; makes an instrument of torture and ihame the ladder of ascent to paradise; and, far ibove all combination of earthly hopes, calls up he... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 360 páginas
...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,... | |
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