 | Abner Kneeland, Samuel Dunn Parker - 1834 - 282 oldal
...useful to me, I should prefer a Jirm religious belief to every other blessing, for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when' all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, awaking life in death, and from... | |
 | Andrew Dunlap - 1834 - 278 oldal
...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 earthly hopes vanish, and throws over decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, awaking life in death, and from... | |
 | 1835 - 224 oldal
...believe most useful, I should prefer ' a firm religious belief ' to every other blessing; it makes life a discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes when all...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity, making torture and sorrow the means of ascent to paradise." — Third Edition of the Young Gentleman's... | |
 | William A. Brewer - 1836 - 198 oldal
...the sanctuary of peace ; for the Lord of Sabaoth is on, our side. THOUGHTS A firm religious belief creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and...the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all1 Ihjhta ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls op beauty and divinity.... | |
 | Sallust - 1837 - 384 oldal
...useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to e,very 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 all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up... | |
 | Jasper Adams - 1837 - 554 oldal
...Letter IV. t Speech of Alexander H. Everett in the Senate of Massachusetts, 1833. for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity." Again he says, " Religion, whether natural or revealed, has always the same beneficial influence on... | |
 | 1839 - 226 oldal
...most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to any other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes, when all...all lights; awakens life even in death ; and from destruction and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1837 - 416 oldal
...religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes discipline of goodness, creates new hopes where earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay, the...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 oldal
...tueful to me, 1 should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life . discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish; and throw* over the decay, the destruction of eiiitence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens liie... | |
 | 536 oldal
...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...decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous ofall lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay, calls up heauty and divinity:... | |
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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... 
