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Page 29
... never forsake him . When tired with the vexations of life , devotion opens to him its quiet re- treat , where the tumults of the world are hushed , and its cares are lost in happy oblivion ; where the wicked cease from troubling , and ...
... never forsake him . When tired with the vexations of life , devotion opens to him its quiet re- treat , where the tumults of the world are hushed , and its cares are lost in happy oblivion ; where the wicked cease from troubling , and ...
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... never make him base ; and confid- ing , that in what God and his con- science require him to act or suffer , God and a good conscience will sup- port him . - Such principles as these are the best preparation for the vi- cissitudes of ...
... never make him base ; and confid- ing , that in what God and his con- science require him to act or suffer , God and a good conscience will sup- port him . - Such principles as these are the best preparation for the vi- cissitudes of ...
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... never offend- ed ; unfeeling to distress , as if we knew not what it was to suffer . From those airy regions of pride and folly , let us descend to our proper level . Let us survey the natural equality on which Providence has placed man ...
... never offend- ed ; unfeeling to distress , as if we knew not what it was to suffer . From those airy regions of pride and folly , let us descend to our proper level . Let us survey the natural equality on which Providence has placed man ...
Page 67
... never intended , that any state here should miserable . If the feelings of pleasure are more numerous , and more lively , in the higher departments of life , such also are those of pain . If great- ness flatters our vanity , it ...
... never intended , that any state here should miserable . If the feelings of pleasure are more numerous , and more lively , in the higher departments of life , such also are those of pain . If great- ness flatters our vanity , it ...
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... never been inured to commune with themselves . Dissipation is a more frequent cause of their ruin , than determined im- piety . It is not so much because they have adopted bad principles , as be- cause they have never attended to ...
... never been inured to commune with themselves . Dissipation is a more frequent cause of their ruin , than determined im- piety . It is not so much because they have adopted bad principles , as be- cause they have never attended to ...
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