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" ... power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, 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... "
The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., LL.D.: Late President of the Royal ... - Page 456
by John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 547 pages
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

1830 - 758 pages
...belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodiiess — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay,...in death, and from corruption and decay, calls up hoauty and divinity, and makes an instrument of torture end of t-liamo the ladder of ascent to paradise....
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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 pages
...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,...shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far ahove all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths,...
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Debate on the Evidences of Christianity: Containing an ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Owen - 1829 - 568 pages
...blessingi for it makes life a discipline of goodness — breathes new hopes when all earthly hopes vanishi and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lighti awakens life in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinityi makes an...
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On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening

Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pages
...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 lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity: makes...
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Salmonia: Or: Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations; with Some ...

Sir Humphry Davy - 1832 - 330 pages
...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,...ascent to paradise : and, far above all combinations tof earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 9

1832 - 524 pages
...earthly hopes vanish; and throws over the decay, the destruction ofexistence, the most gorgeous of lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption...combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visious of palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where the...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 9

1832 - 526 pages
...belief " to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness— crealet new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay,...the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of lights; awakens life even in death, and fmm corruption and decay calls up beamy and divinity: makes...
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The Grenada magazine; or, Monthly miscellany of religious and general ...

1833 - 124 pages
...belief, to every other blessing ; for it makes life a ilisc.iplino of goodness creates new hopes, w'he'n all earthly . Hopes Vanish; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the. most grArgeóu'sor.all lights;, awakens life'ievpn .in death, and from ¿orriiptloG and ilejcay¡ pjalla...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 20

Walter Scott - 1848 - 418 pages
...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,...most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life even in deatb, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture...
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Journal of a Residence in Scotland, and Tour Through England, France ...

Henry Blake McLellan - 1834 - 416 pages
...Davy, it "makes discipline of goodness, creates new hopes where earthly hopes vanish, and throws ove» the decay, the' destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life in death ; and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture...
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