 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 300 pages
...example of our Saviour, who expelled the traders from the temple even by violence. PHYS. — I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair! *. ' .*».».'.:. , SIXTH DAY. HALIEUS —... | |
 | 1828 - 592 pages
...I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy : but, if 1 could choose what would be most delightful, and, I...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!' — p. 136. We might quote other passages,... | |
 | 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 - 646 pages
...divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far ahove all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!' — p. 136. We might quote other passages,... | |
 | 1829 - 512 pages
...such feelings as are exhibited in the following sentence, which also occurs in iSalmonia. " I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !" Few of those whose fame and fortune are... | |
 | 1830 - 494 pages
...at last, as it were, becomes lost and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters." Again : — " I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !" How beautiful is the following passage,... | |
 | 1830 - 504 pages
...at last, as it were, becomes lost and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters." Again : — " I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair ! " How beautiful is the following passage,... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1830 - 432 pages
...me, I should prefer a firm religious belief, to every other blessing ; for it makes life a thorough discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when all...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." Sir Humphry's published works, besides... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!" 108 He left two sons, Jacob and Tillemant.... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...better state of existence. " I envy," says he, " no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; be it genius, power, wit, or fancy: but if I could choose...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !" While describing an animated scene of... | |
 | 1831 - 584 pages
...me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a thorough discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when all...everlasting joys, — where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and -despair. — Sir Humphrey Davy. If calamities befall... | |
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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 the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights... 
