 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens liie even in death, and from corruption and decay calls np beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !" — P. 136. We might quote other passages,... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1839 - 556 pages
...and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all light; awakens life in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic only view gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !" Mr. Owen, if we could suppose him sincere,... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1839 - 122 pages
...death, and from decay and destruction calls up beauty and divinity; makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise; and, far above...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." 3. This Narrative exhibits a beautiful... | |
 | 1839 - 430 pages
...destruction and decay, calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and shame, the ladder nf ascent to paradise ; and, far above all combinations...security of everlasting joys where the sensualist and UN skeptic view only gloomy decay, annihilation, and despair. ORIGIN OF THE WLP.I'ING WILLOW. The first... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1839 - 204 pages
...instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and, far above all com* binations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation and despair." 3. This Narrative exhibits a beautiful and... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 244 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 members, this congregation of one of its firmest pillars, and the scientific world of one of its noblest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 446 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!"-?. 136. We might quote other passages,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 460 pages
...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...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!"—P. 13C. We might quote other passages,... | |
 | Sallust - 1845 - 406 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... | |
 | George Wood - 1848 - 508 pages
...earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blessed, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair."* Was not La Place a great mind ? His last words were worthy of so great a man : " What we know, is little... | |
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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... 
