 If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture, when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being, who has given...  The British Essayists;: Spectator - Page 2by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...is the great author of good, and father of mereies. If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the...soul into rapture, when it is employed on this great objeet of gratitude ; on this beneficent being who has given us every thing we already possess, and... | |
 | William Sherwood - Conversation - 1856 - 466 pages
...the great Author of good, and the Father of mercies. If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation ' in...possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hbpe for. 3. CHARITY.— Hugh Blair. S. 1718, d. 1800. True ' charity | attempts not to shut our eyes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 pages
...is the great Author of good, and Father of mercies. If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the...gratitude ; on this beneficent Being, who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for. Moat of the works... | |
 | John Richardson Major - 1858 - 216 pages
...is the great Author of good, and Father of mercies. If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the...gratitude, on this beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for. XXIX. If we regard... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - English essays - 1864 - 344 pages
...is the great Author of good, and Father of mercies. If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the...gratitude — on this beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for. Most of the works... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 pages
...grateful man, ; exalts the soul into rapture, when it is em ployed on this great object of gratitude, or this beneficent Being, who has given us every thing...thing we yet hope for. Most of the works of the pagan poet were either direct hymns to their deities or tended indirectly to the celebration oJ their respective... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1864 - 176 pages
...of mercies. Gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces very pleasing sensations in the mind of a grateful man. It exalts the soul...employed on this great Object of gratitude, on this Being who has given us every thing we already possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 298 pages
...it for the natural gratification which it affords. If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the...it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed in this great object of gratitude towards that beneficent Being who has given us everything we already... | |
 | Robert Armstrong - 1872 - 344 pages
...is the great Author of good, and Father of mercies. If gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the...gratitude, on this beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for. Most of the works... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...gift of him who is the Author of good and Father of mercies. If gratitude when exerted towards another naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the...gratitude, on this beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet bope for. ADDISON : Spectator,... | |
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