Discourses on Various SubjectsCharles Fox, 1835 - 299 páginas |
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... experience ; but it is conduct too : it is high meditation ; but then it is also humble virtue . It is excitement , it is ear nestness ; but no less truly is it calmness . Let me dwell upon this last point a moment . It is not un ...
... experience ; but it is conduct too : it is high meditation ; but then it is also humble virtue . It is excitement , it is ear nestness ; but no less truly is it calmness . Let me dwell upon this last point a moment . It is not un ...
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... experience of another , and it contributes to his satisfaction , of course , to have the same experience . How refreshing is it , amidst this dull and artificial uniformity , to meet with a man whose religion is his own ; who has ...
... experience of another , and it contributes to his satisfaction , of course , to have the same experience . How refreshing is it , amidst this dull and artificial uniformity , to meet with a man whose religion is his own ; who has ...
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... experience — to make a hasty effort , to have a paroxysm of emotion , to give way to a feverish and transient feeling , and then to smother and quench all the rising purposes of a better life . But true religion comes to us with a wiser ...
... experience — to make a hasty effort , to have a paroxysm of emotion , to give way to a feverish and transient feeling , and then to smother and quench all the rising purposes of a better life . But true religion comes to us with a wiser ...
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... experienced person , " or , he is " a Christian if ever there was one : " but it seems , even when the religious themselves say all this , as if it were an extorted and cold homage ; as if religion were something very proper , indeed ...
... experienced person , " or , he is " a Christian if ever there was one : " but it seems , even when the religious themselves say all this , as if it were an extorted and cold homage ; as if religion were something very proper , indeed ...
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... experience . I ask , then do you love religion ? I ask you , I ask any one who will entertain the question - do you love religion ? Does the very word carry a sound that is agreeable , delightful to you ? Does it stand for something ...
... experience . I ask , then do you love religion ? I ask you , I ask any one who will entertain the question - do you love religion ? Does the very word carry a sound that is agreeable , delightful to you ? Does it stand for something ...
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admiration affections amidst appeal art thou awaken awful beauty believe blessed breath brethren cern character children of men Christian cold conscience creature dark death DISCOURSE divine divine grace doubt duty dwell earth earthly eternity evil faith fear feeling forms friends future glorious glory God's gospel habit happiness heaven holy holy record honour hope human heart human nature immortal indifference indulgence infinite interests irreligion Jesus language light ligion live look meditation ment mercy mind misery moral moral universe ness never noble objects pass passions perhaps piety pity pleasure prayer principle racter rational reason religion religious sensibility repeat retribution scene selfish sense sensual sinful sinner sleep solemn sorrow soul speak spirit strong sublime suffer sure teaching thee things thou thou art mind thought timate tion toil true truth virtue voice whole wisdom words worldly wrong