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... virtue can be inscribed to none more suitably than to One who , in the highest station of life , has ever supported the cause of religion by her conspicuous regard * Dr. Blair's Sermons originally formed Five Volumes ; and this ...
... virtue can be inscribed to none more suitably than to One who , in the highest station of life , has ever supported the cause of religion by her conspicuous regard * Dr. Blair's Sermons originally formed Five Volumes ; and this ...
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Hugh Blair, James Finlayson. for it ; who has advanced the interests of virtue , by her distinguished example ; and ... virtues to shine with extensive lustre , and to diffuse their auspicious influence over a whole land . That this ...
Hugh Blair, James Finlayson. for it ; who has advanced the interests of virtue , by her distinguished example ; and ... virtues to shine with extensive lustre , and to diffuse their auspicious influence over a whole land . That this ...
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... Virtue . 246 GAL . vi . 9. And let us not be weary in well - doing ; for in due season we shall reap , if we faint not . SERMON XVI . * On the Importance of Order in Conduct . 262 1 CORINTH . xiv . 40. Let all things be done in order ...
... Virtue . 246 GAL . vi . 9. And let us not be weary in well - doing ; for in due season we shall reap , if we faint not . SERMON XVI . * On the Importance of Order in Conduct . 262 1 CORINTH . xiv . 40. Let all things be done in order ...
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... virtue is , or at least is pretended to be , a respectable and an honoured name , while piety sounds meanly in their ... virtues . But devout affections , and religious duties , they treat with contempt , as founded on shadowy ...
... virtue is , or at least is pretended to be , a respectable and an honoured name , while piety sounds meanly in their ... virtues . But devout affections , and religious duties , they treat with contempt , as founded on shadowy ...
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... virtue , and yet continue regardless of one of the first and chief dictates of human nature ? Where is thy sensibility to what is right and fit , if that loud voice which calls all nations throughout the earth to religious homage , has ...
... virtue , and yet continue regardless of one of the first and chief dictates of human nature ? Where is thy sensibility to what is right and fit , if that loud voice which calls all nations throughout the earth to religious homage , has ...
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