 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 pages
...fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful, to me, I shonld prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." • " Salinonia,1' p. 86. But those, who... | |
 | Sallust - 1837 - 384 pages
...death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and, far...of everlasting joys, where the .sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." H. Beautifully expressed, Dr. Barton, and... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1837 - 416 pages
...from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame a ladder of ascent to paradise ; and far above all combinations...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic only views gloom, decay, annihilation and despair." Have yon not observed that infidelity is... | |
 | 1839 - 226 pages
...ascent to paradise; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delight visionc of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blest,...of everlasting joys; where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihiliaton and desPiir ! SirH. D..7. There is much talk in our learned... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 368 pages
...trusting confidence in God and the same unwavering reliance upon a benignant Providence that fill his own bosom — that man seems to me to have attained to...community of one of its most efficient and valuable 3 members, this congregation of one of its firmest pillars, and the scientific world of one of its brightest... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...the summit of earthly greatness. And it is worthy of remark that this was the sentiment of the mgst illustrious and successful investigator of chemical...community of one of its most efficient and valuable 3 members, this congregation of one of its firmest pillars, and the scientific world of one of its brightest... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 128 pages
...the most illustrious and successful investigator of chemical science which this age has produced—I mean Sir Humphry Davy. "I envy," says that great philosopher,...community of one of its most efficient and valuable 3 members, this congregation of one of its firmest pillars, and the scientific world of one of its brightest... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1838 - 128 pages
...the most illustrious and successful investigator of chemical science which this age has produced—I mean Sir Humphry Davy. " I envy," says that great...community of one of its most efficient and valuable . 3members, this congregation of one of its firmest pillars, and the scientific world of one of its... | |
 | William Shipley - 1838 - 310 pages
...after a day spent in the practice of his art among the romantic rivers and hills of Scotland : " 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 !" Salmonia, page 136. Stephen Oliver, the... | |
 | 1828 - 636 pages
...reflections on, this passage in any other than the words of the publication itself. ' 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!' — p. 136. We might quote other passages,... | |
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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... 
