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... heart these will scarcely be kept alive , if there be not also an intellectual discipline , ( I call it intellectual , yet it is in the very highest sense a moral discipline , ) to shew him what the thoughts and feelings of which ...
... heart these will scarcely be kept alive , if there be not also an intellectual discipline , ( I call it intellectual , yet it is in the very highest sense a moral discipline , ) to shew him what the thoughts and feelings of which ...
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... heart , not to be aware that there was another kind of opposition more formidable than this , which the proposal to diffuse Christianity abroad must struggle with . Was the gift worth bestowing ? Were we really carrying truth into the ...
... heart , not to be aware that there was another kind of opposition more formidable than this , which the proposal to diffuse Christianity abroad must struggle with . Was the gift worth bestowing ? Were we really carrying truth into the ...
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... heart and reason . It was no occasion for clever special pleading ; the question was to him one of life and death : when he had once resolved it , the next duty was to act upon his conviction , and to strive that all men should be ...
... heart and reason . It was no occasion for clever special pleading ; the question was to him one of life and death : when he had once resolved it , the next duty was to act upon his conviction , and to strive that all men should be ...
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... hearts upon which so many disparaging epithets were cast , and which it was supposed could pro- duce no fruits that were not evil and hurtful . Faith it is now admitted has been the most po- tent instrument of good to the world ; has ...
... hearts upon which so many disparaging epithets were cast , and which it was supposed could pro- duce no fruits that were not evil and hurtful . Faith it is now admitted has been the most po- tent instrument of good to the world ; has ...
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... heart and intellect of man , as much as any other system ? Are there not the closest the most obvious relations between it and them ? Is it not subject to the same law of decay from the progress of knowledge and society with all the ...
... heart and intellect of man , as much as any other system ? Are there not the closest the most obvious relations between it and them ? Is it not subject to the same law of decay from the progress of knowledge and society with all the ...
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