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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... "
The Varieties of Human Greatness: A Discourse on the Life and Character of ... - Página 17
por Alexander Young - 1838 - 119 páginas
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Salmonia: Or, Days of Fly Fishing, in a Series of Conversations, with Some ...

Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 300 páginas
...example of our Saviour, who expelled the traders from the temple even by violence. 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! *. ' .*».».'.:. , SIXTH DAY. HALIEUS —...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 38-39

1828 - 592 páginas
...I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy : but, if 1 could choose what would be most delightful, and, I...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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 38

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 páginas
...divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far ahove all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most...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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Spirit of the English Magazines

1829 - 512 páginas
...such feelings as are exhibited in the following sentence, which also occurs in iSalmonia. " 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 !" Few of those whose fame and fortune are...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 14

1830 - 504 páginas
...at last, as it were, becomes lost and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters." Again : — " 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 ! " How beautiful is the following passage,...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 14

1830 - 494 páginas
...at last, as it were, becomes lost and mingled with the mighty abyss of waters." Again : — " 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 !" How beautiful is the following passage,...
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National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of ..., Volume 1

William Jerdan - 1830 - 432 páginas
...me, I should prefer a firm religious belief, to every other blessing ; for it makes life a thorough discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when all...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." Sir Humphry's published works, besides...
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On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening

Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 páginas
...earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair!" 108 He left two sons, Jacob and Tillemant....
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The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart

John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 páginas
...better state of existence. " I envy," says he, " no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; be it genius, power, wit, or fancy: but if I could choose...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair !" While describing an animated scene of...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 11

1831 - 584 páginas
...me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a thorough discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes, when all...everlasting joys, — where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and -despair. — Sir Humphrey Davy. If calamities befall...
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