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... happiness to all men , so that there will be no final distinction between the righteous and the wicked - between him that serveth God , and him that serveth him not . But this is the opinion of a very small minority amongst professed ...
... happiness to all men , so that there will be no final distinction between the righteous and the wicked - between him that serveth God , and him that serveth him not . But this is the opinion of a very small minority amongst professed ...
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... happiness hereafter , are thrown out of the account , as if they needed no attention ? As if reverence and devotion , piety and holiness , truth and love , justice and temperance , were the spontaneous products of our nature , and would ...
... happiness hereafter , are thrown out of the account , as if they needed no attention ? As if reverence and devotion , piety and holiness , truth and love , justice and temperance , were the spontaneous products of our nature , and would ...
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... happiest lot , not only in this life , but in the life to come ? In other words , is it too much to ask that the teachers of our land shall submit to the necessity imposed upon them by the prevailing spirit of our day , and earnestJy ...
... happiest lot , not only in this life , but in the life to come ? In other words , is it too much to ask that the teachers of our land shall submit to the necessity imposed upon them by the prevailing spirit of our day , and earnestJy ...
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... happiness and enjoyment are only to be reached beyond the grave , but that he is the happiest , even in this life , whose principles and affections are most truly submitted to the authority of God -- that all , young and old , without ...
... happiness and enjoyment are only to be reached beyond the grave , but that he is the happiest , even in this life , whose principles and affections are most truly submitted to the authority of God -- that all , young and old , without ...
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... happiness of our race depend upon the elevation of the moral and spiritual life , according to the laws of God , the Supreme Disposer . They pause not to reflect upon the solemn truth , that no possible combination of external ...
... happiness of our race depend upon the elevation of the moral and spiritual life , according to the laws of God , the Supreme Disposer . They pause not to reflect upon the solemn truth , that no possible combination of external ...
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Page 172 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 64 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 63 - The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder what must have been the amount of that bribe, in emolument or pleasure, that would have detained him a week inactive after their final adjustment.
Page 63 - It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less.
Page 10 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Page 5 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 85 - And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise ; he calleth thee.
Page 152 - When winds are blowing strong. The traveller slaked His thirst from rill or gushing fount, and thanked The Naiad. Sunbeams, upon distant hills • Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly.
Page 84 - And when he heard that it •> was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.
Page 49 - Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republic which they set forth in glowing colors, than in the monarchy which they attack; it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction, if the moral tie be not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? and what can be done with a people who are their own masters, if they be not submissive to the Deity?