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Page xiv
... religion , or study of wisdom , without sometime slackening the cords of intense thought and labour ; which , lest we should think faulty , God him- self conceals us not his own recreations before the world was built : ' I was , saith ...
... religion , or study of wisdom , without sometime slackening the cords of intense thought and labour ; which , lest we should think faulty , God him- self conceals us not his own recreations before the world was built : ' I was , saith ...
Page xviii
... religion , because it prevailed among the lower orders , was puritanism , fanaticism , dreaming . But with similar difficulties all who aim at conferring permanent blessings on their race must be content to struggle . For , as the ...
... religion , because it prevailed among the lower orders , was puritanism , fanaticism , dreaming . But with similar difficulties all who aim at conferring permanent blessings on their race must be content to struggle . For , as the ...
Page xxi
... religion and humanity which throughout pervades them . He would inspire in all men the deepest reverence for God their Father , and for each other that brotherly love , forbearance , charity , recom- mended by the precepts and example ...
... religion and humanity which throughout pervades them . He would inspire in all men the deepest reverence for God their Father , and for each other that brotherly love , forbearance , charity , recom- mended by the precepts and example ...
Page xxiii
... religion and virtue - as most assuredly he did- should have re- flected that it was his first duty not so to clothe his thoughts in the splendour and brightness of eloquence , as to render them , like the sun , too painful to be gazed ...
... religion and virtue - as most assuredly he did- should have re- flected that it was his first duty not so to clothe his thoughts in the splendour and brightness of eloquence , as to render them , like the sun , too painful to be gazed ...
Page xxiv
... religion , is precious as life itself . Let them only know in what secret or remote shrine it may be found , and the road thither , I am persuaded , will be immediately trodden by the feet of innume- rable pilgrims , full of hope , of ...
... religion , is precious as life itself . Let them only know in what secret or remote shrine it may be found , and the road thither , I am persuaded , will be immediately trodden by the feet of innume- rable pilgrims , full of hope , of ...
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