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... Notabilia: Or, Curious and Amusing Facts about Many Things, Explained and ... - עמוד 205מאת John Timbs - 1872 - 384 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 דפים
...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 ehame the... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 188 דפים
...most delightful, and 1 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 fortune, and shame the ladder... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 דפים
...religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness ; crcatec now hopes when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over...the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of allights ; awakens life even in death, and from corruption anii decay calls up beauty and divinity... | |
| Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 542 דפים
...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...existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life in death, and calls out from corruption and decay beauty and everlasting glory." — SIB HUMPHRY DAVY.... | |
| Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 דפים
...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...existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life in death, and calls out from corruption and decay beauty and everlasting glory." — SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.... | |
| Margaret Cockburn Conkling, Henry Lunettes - 1860 - 496 דפים
...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 goodness, creates new hope, when earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay, the destruction, of existence, the most... | |
| John Timbs - 1861 - 340 דפים
...prefer a firm religious belief to everr other blessing. For it makes life a discipline Weak Belief. 97 of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes...existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life in death, and calls out from corruption and decay beauty and everlasting glory. Twenty years ago, it... | |
| Frederick Adolphus Packard - 1861 - 382 דפים
...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...creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and thrives over the decay, the destruction of existence ; it is the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens... | |
| Cosmos - 1861 - 376 דפים
...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...goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity." — SIR HUMPHREY... | |
| 1862 - 418 דפים
...to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes me a disciple of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes...gorgeous of all lights, awakens life even in death ; and corruption and decay call up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of fortune, and scales the ladder... | |
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