New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent prose and epistolary writers, by R.A. Davenport, Volume 1C.& C. Whittingham, 1827 - English literature |
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... * ...... On a Particular Providence ................. ..Rennell . The Credulity of Deists ....... On the practical Principle of Religion . VOL . I. Miss H. Moore . a 090358 3 61 Page The happy Effects of general Piety ...... Johnson .
... * ...... On a Particular Providence ................. ..Rennell . The Credulity of Deists ....... On the practical Principle of Religion . VOL . I. Miss H. Moore . a 090358 3 61 Page The happy Effects of general Piety ...... Johnson .
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... Piety ........... Tillotson . 120 The Faculties of Human Nature , and their Per- version Wilberforce . 121 The Danger of Sins of Omission ... Miss H. More . 122 On the Power of Conscience to punish Vice . Bishop Horne . 124 The ...
... Piety ........... Tillotson . 120 The Faculties of Human Nature , and their Per- version Wilberforce . 121 The Danger of Sins of Omission ... Miss H. More . 122 On the Power of Conscience to punish Vice . Bishop Horne . 124 The ...
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... piety , others to atheism ; the great mass of the people left ( and left willingly ) to the dominion of superstition , and the wise concluding all their inquiries , either in the belief that these subjects were beyond the reach of human ...
... piety , others to atheism ; the great mass of the people left ( and left willingly ) to the dominion of superstition , and the wise concluding all their inquiries , either in the belief that these subjects were beyond the reach of human ...
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... piety altogether spiritual , disconnected with all outward circumstances ; a religion of pure meditation and abstracted devotion , was not made for so compound , so imperfect a creature as man . There have , indeed , been a few sublime ...
... piety altogether spiritual , disconnected with all outward circumstances ; a religion of pure meditation and abstracted devotion , was not made for so compound , so imperfect a creature as man . There have , indeed , been a few sublime ...
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... piety . God did not make a religion for these few exceptions to the general state of the world , but for the world at large ; for beings active , busy , restless ; whose activity he , by his word , diverts into its proper channels ...
... piety . God did not make a religion for these few exceptions to the general state of the world , but for the world at large ; for beings active , busy , restless ; whose activity he , by his word , diverts into its proper channels ...
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Page 147 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 138 - They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look : for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
Page 103 - And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Page 73 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Page 264 - ... obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over—
Page 266 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return, after all his errors ; and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose ; commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence; and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.
Page 34 - I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me though he die, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Page 262 - ... side, or the fruits that hung upon the branches. At last the green path began to decline from its first tendency, and to wind among hills and thickets, cooled with fountains, and murmuring with water-falls.
Page 149 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 128 - It is not for us to bring our minds up to this mysterious agency. But, such is the incomprehensible fact, that the same Being, whose eye is abroad over the whole universe, gives vegetation to every blade of grass, and motion to every particle of blood which circulates through the veins of the minutest...