| Religion - 1830 - 758 pages
...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 life a discipline of goodiiess — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction... | |
| Arminianism - 1850 - 698 pages
...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...calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly... | |
| 1828 - 592 pages
...1 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...calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly... | |
| Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1828 - 326 pages
...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...calls up beauty and divinity: makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and far above all combinations of earthly hopes,... | |
| 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
...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...calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far ahove all combinations of earthly... | |
| 1829 - 512 pages
...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...calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly... | |
| 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... | |
| Great Britain - 1830 - 494 pages
...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...calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly... | |
| 1830 - 478 pages
...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...calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations of earthly... | |
| William Jerdan - Great Britain - 1830 - 432 pages
...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 life a thorough discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over... | |
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