Sermons ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author, Volume 3T. Cadell; F.C. & J Rivington [& others], 1822 - Presbyterian Church |
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... kind . No man , in any condition of life , is at liberty to act always as he pleases , and to gratify every wish he forms . The nature of the human state necessarily imposes on all men various restraints . The laws of society allow no ...
... kind . No man , in any condition of life , is at liberty to act always as he pleases , and to gratify every wish he forms . The nature of the human state necessarily imposes on all men various restraints . The laws of society allow no ...
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... kind . It awaits not the test of deliberate comparison and choice ; but overpowers us at once by some striking impression of present advantage or enjoyment . It hurries us with the violence of passion ; captivates us by the allurements ...
... kind . It awaits not the test of deliberate comparison and choice ; but overpowers us at once by some striking impression of present advantage or enjoyment . It hurries us with the violence of passion ; captivates us by the allurements ...
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... kind , have been frequently perverted to bad ends ; and yet their intrinsic worth and usefulness remain untouched , and acknowledged . -Besides this , it cannot be admitted that , because religious institutions produce not all the good ...
... kind , have been frequently perverted to bad ends ; and yet their intrinsic worth and usefulness remain untouched , and acknowledged . -Besides this , it cannot be admitted that , because religious institutions produce not all the good ...
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... kind . Nothing can be assumed as a more certain axiom , than that he who allows either inordinate passions , or a cross temper , to govern him , must , though he should possess all that flourishing fortune can bestow , be a stranger to ...
... kind . Nothing can be assumed as a more certain axiom , than that he who allows either inordinate passions , or a cross temper , to govern him , must , though he should possess all that flourishing fortune can bestow , be a stranger to ...
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... kind ; of the injustice of the world ; of the poverty which you suffer , and the discouragements under which you labour ; of the crosses and disappoint- ments of which your life has been doomed to be full . Before you give too much ...
... kind ; of the injustice of the world ; of the poverty which you suffer , and the discouragements under which you labour ; of the crosses and disappoint- ments of which your life has been doomed to be full . Before you give too much ...
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