I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not 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... The Richmond County Mirror - Page 1611839Full view - About this book
| Religion - 1830 - 758 pages
...prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodiiess — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ;...of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay, calls up hoauty and divinity, and makes an instrument of torture end of t-liamo... | |
| Arminianism - 1850 - 698 pages
...be most delightful and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of...all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of...all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the... | |
| Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1828 - 326 pages
...most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of...of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity: makes an instrument of torture and of shame the... | |
| 1828 - 592 pages
...most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of...all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the... | |
| 1829 - 512 pages
...most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of...all lights : awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the... | |
| Robert Owen - Apologetics - 1829 - 568 pages
...blessingi for it makes life a discipline of goodness — breathes new hopes when all earthly hopes vanishi and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lighti awakens life in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinityi makes an... | |
| 1830 - 478 pages
...most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of...all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the... | |
| Great Britain - 1830 - 494 pages
...most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of...all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the... | |
| William Jerdan - Great Britain - 1830 - 432 pages
...me, I should prefer a firm religious belief, to every other blessing ; for it makes life a thorough discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when all...all lights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the... | |
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