| George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 страници
...Paganism, and Judaism, and Christianity. 23. There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual...its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it. 24. Their idleness, and their luxury and pleasures, their criminal deeds, and their immoderate passions,... | |
| William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 страници
...may spread and flourish to all eternity. There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion, than this of the perpetual...to shine for ever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge... | |
| Life thoughts - 1865 - 196 страници
...leap. — GURNALL. The Soul's Progress. THERE is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this : of the perpetual...at a period in it. To look upon the soul as going from strength to strength ; to consider that it is to shine for ever with new accessions of glory,... | |
| 1865 - 652 страници
...Addison, on the Immortality of the Soul : " There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes toward the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it. That cherubim, which... | |
| Jane E. Stebbins - 1867 - 618 страници
...triumphant consideration in religion than this — the perpetual progress which the soul makes toward the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving...strength to strength ; to consider that she is to shine forASPIRATIONS FORESHADOW IMMORTALITY. 65 ever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity,... | |
| James Caughey - 1868 - 492 страници
...triumphant consideration in religion than this — the perpetual progress which the soul makes toward the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it ; to look upon a soul as going on from strength to strength — to consider that she is to shine forever, with new... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 страници
...and in the beginning of her inquiries ? " There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes toward the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period of it. To look upon the soul... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1870 - 610 страници
...may spread and flourish to all eternity ? There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion, than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards ^h5__p^£f5ction of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it. To look upon the soul as going... | |
| Charles Henry W. Biggs - 1871 - 82 страници
...THE Extracts from " Spectator" :— 9. " There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasingand triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual...ever arriving at a period in it. To look upon the eoul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine for ever with new accessions... | |
| John Wesley - 1871 - 450 страници
...climate, where they may spread and flourish to all eternity ? There is not a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfeqtion of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it. To look upon the soul as going from... | |
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