Sermons, Volume 5T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1814 - Presbyterian Church |
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... happiest which suffers the fewest troubles . To look for entire exemption from them , is to court disappointment . At the same time , I do not mean to hold it forth as any precept of religion or wis- dom , that we ought always to sadden ...
... happiest which suffers the fewest troubles . To look for entire exemption from them , is to court disappointment . At the same time , I do not mean to hold it forth as any precept of religion or wis- dom , that we ought always to sadden ...
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... happiness or misery arises from the connexions which we have with those who are around us , and the relations in which we stand to them . These , therefore , open a field within which our wishes and expec- tations find an ample range ...
... happiness or misery arises from the connexions which we have with those who are around us , and the relations in which we stand to them . These , therefore , open a field within which our wishes and expec- tations find an ample range ...
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... happiness ; one of the most grateful of all sensations to the heart of man provided always that this self - approbation rest upon proper grounds ; that it be tempered with due humility , and regulated by Christian faith ; that it never ...
... happiness ; one of the most grateful of all sensations to the heart of man provided always that this self - approbation rest upon proper grounds ; that it be tempered with due humility , and regulated by Christian faith ; that it never ...
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... happiness is not to be measured by the inequality of outward estate . When you see the peasant cheerful in his cottage , and the labourer singing in the fields , you may discern that there is some power in the mind superiour to external ...
... happiness is not to be measured by the inequality of outward estate . When you see the peasant cheerful in his cottage , and the labourer singing in the fields , you may discern that there is some power in the mind superiour to external ...
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... happiness that he enjoys , or the degree of unhappiness that he feels ? The questions you are to put , if the man be in prosperity are not , How much wealth does such a man possess ? but , How does he enjoy it ? If he be in adversity ...
... happiness that he enjoys , or the degree of unhappiness that he feels ? The questions you are to put , if the man be in prosperity are not , How much wealth does such a man possess ? but , How does he enjoy it ? If he be in adversity ...
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