The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingJ.S. Pratt, 1851 - 311 páginas |
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... religious instruction , derives its efficacy , not #o much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion ...
... religious instruction , derives its efficacy , not #o much from what men are taught to know , as from what they are brought to feel . He who pretends to great sensibility towards men , and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion ...
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... Religion ? There she is admitted to those prospects of Prov- idence and futurity , which alone can warm and fill the heart . I speak here of such as retain the feelings of humanity ; whom misfortunes have softened , and perhaps rendered ...
... Religion ? There she is admitted to those prospects of Prov- idence and futurity , which alone can warm and fill the heart . I speak here of such as retain the feelings of humanity ; whom misfortunes have softened , and perhaps rendered ...
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... religion : but you struck at the true . Heaven and hell are not more different , than the system of faith I defended , and that which produced the horrors of which you speak . Why would you so fallaciously confound them together in some ...
... religion : but you struck at the true . Heaven and hell are not more different , than the system of faith I defended , and that which produced the horrors of which you speak . Why would you so fallaciously confound them together in some ...
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No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy | 2 |
The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue | 10 |
The seasons | 78 |
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