 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 - الصفحة 1911831عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 758
...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 ;...in death, and from corruption and decay, calls up hoauty and divinity, and makes an instrument of torture end of t-liamo the ladder of ascent to paradise.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...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...shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far ahove all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths,... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...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... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...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...ascent to paradise : and, far above all combinations tof earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the... | |
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...mostusefnltome, 1 should prefer " a firm religious belief" to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when...vanish; and throws over the decay, the destruction ofexistence, the most gorgeous of lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 124
...should prelor a firm r-eliginus belief, to every other blessing ; for it makes life a ilisc.iplino of goodness creates new hopes, w'he'n all earthly...the decay, the destruction of existence, the. most grArgeóu'sor.all lights;, awakens life'ievpn .in death, and from ¿orriiptloG and ilejcay¡ pjalla... | |
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...religious belief " to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness— crealet new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws...the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of lights; awakens life even in death, and fmm corruption and decay calls up beamy and divinity: makes... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...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 tlie decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...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...most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in deatb, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture... | |
 | Henry Blake McLellan - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...Davy, it "makes discipline of goodness, creates new hopes where earthly hopes vanish, and throws ove» the decay, the' destruction of 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... | |
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