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Page ix
... improved , filled up , and given to the Public by his learned friend Dr. John Blair , Prebendary of Westminster , in ... improvement , on the progress of elegance and taste among their contemporaries , and on the general interests of the ...
... improved , filled up , and given to the Public by his learned friend Dr. John Blair , Prebendary of Westminster , in ... improvement , on the progress of elegance and taste among their contemporaries , and on the general interests of the ...
Page xviii
... having contributed so eminently to edify " the Church of Christ , and from the improving influence " which his labours had shed on his own heart . For he was 66 " at home and in himself , the perfect 13 xviii THE LIFE OF.
... having contributed so eminently to edify " the Church of Christ , and from the improving influence " which his labours had shed on his own heart . For he was 66 " at home and in himself , the perfect 13 xviii THE LIFE OF.
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... improvements of human knowledge , but especially by the great discoveries of the Christian revelation ? Whatever , either from reverence or from gratitude , can excite men to the worship of God , is by this revelation placed in such a ...
... improvements of human knowledge , but especially by the great discoveries of the Christian revelation ? Whatever , either from reverence or from gratitude , can excite men to the worship of God , is by this revelation placed in such a ...
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... improvement as the subject will na- turally suggest . I. RELIGION prepares the mind for encountering , with fortitude , the most severe shocks of adversity ; whereas vice , by its natural influence on the temper , tends to produce ...
... improvement as the subject will na- turally suggest . I. RELIGION prepares the mind for encountering , with fortitude , the most severe shocks of adversity ; whereas vice , by its natural influence on the temper , tends to produce ...
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... reverence only , but with trust and hope . The time of prosperity was to him not merely a season of barren joy , but productive of much useful improvement . He had cultivated his mind . He had 20 SERM . II . ON THE INFLUENCE OF.
... reverence only , but with trust and hope . The time of prosperity was to him not merely a season of barren joy , but productive of much useful improvement . He had cultivated his mind . He had 20 SERM . II . ON THE INFLUENCE OF.
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