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... Pleasure a sermon written with great dignity and eloquence , and which should be regarded as his solemn parting admonition to a class of men whose conduct is highly important to the community , and whose reformation and virtue he had ...
... Pleasure a sermon written with great dignity and eloquence , and which should be regarded as his solemn parting admonition to a class of men whose conduct is highly important to the community , and whose reformation and virtue he had ...
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... pleasures of beneficence , but must often undergo the pain arising from bad passions . But when beneficence and devotion are united , they pour upon the man in whom they meet , the full pleasures of a good and pure heart . His alms con ...
... pleasures of beneficence , but must often undergo the pain arising from bad passions . But when beneficence and devotion are united , they pour upon the man in whom they meet , the full pleasures of a good and pure heart . His alms con ...
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... pleasure that can compensate or alleviate pain . While the wisdom of the world is thus occupied , Religion has been no less attentive to the same im- portant object . It informs us in the text , of a pavi- lion , which God erects to ...
... pleasure that can compensate or alleviate pain . While the wisdom of the world is thus occupied , Religion has been no less attentive to the same im- portant object . It informs us in the text , of a pavi- lion , which God erects to ...
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... pleasure except what was seasoned by vice or vanity , their adversity is to the last degree disconsolate . Health and opu- lence were the two pillars on which they rested . Shake either of them , and their whole edifice of hope and ...
... pleasure except what was seasoned by vice or vanity , their adversity is to the last degree disconsolate . Health and opu- lence were the two pillars on which they rested . Shake either of them , and their whole edifice of hope and ...
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... pleasures were always of the calm , inno- cent , and temperate kind ; and over these , the changes of the world have the least power . His mind is a kingdom to him ; and he can still enjoy it . The world did not bestow upon him all his ...
... pleasures were always of the calm , inno- cent , and temperate kind ; and over these , the changes of the world have the least power . His mind is a kingdom to him ; and he can still enjoy it . The world did not bestow upon him all his ...
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