 | Leroy Jones Halsey - Bible as literature - 1859 - 448 pages
...earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens 'of the blessed, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist...view only gloom, decay, annihilation and despair." Shall this " firm religious faith," so desirable, so blessed, so needful for us in life and in death,... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling, Henry Lunettes - Etiquette - 1860 - 496 pages
...earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions — palms and amaranths, the gardens of the blessed, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the skeptic view only gloom, decay, and annihilation." With these sublime words, my dear nephews, ] Lid you, affectionately, Adieu ! HENRY... | |
 | Education - 1862 - 418 pages
...divinity ; makes an instrument of fortune, and scales the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and far above all earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions...security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair.—Sir Humphrey Davy. Is learning your ambition... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1862 - 354 pages
...paradise; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of plains and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." There comes up before us as we are still... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...paradise ; and far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of plains and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. ¿Sir Humphry Davy. BELIEF — a "Willing.... | |
 | Pulchérie Money - 1863 - 476 pages
...; and, far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of plains and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security...everlasting joys, — where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. (Sir Humphry Davy.} January 8. RESIGNATION.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...and far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms ami amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the bkcptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. 165. THE UNBELIEVER. I PITY the unbeliever... | |
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 pages
...death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. PROVIDENCE. SIR H. DAVY. Whatever may happen... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...the light of reason, and DENIES THEHE is A GOD. IV. BLESSINGS OF RELIGIOUS FAITH.— DAVY.' I ENVY no quality of the mind or intellect in others —...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. IV. 174. INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY. r I THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, 1 The earth,... | |
 | Oliver Raymond - Fishing - 1866 - 104 pages
...art for fostering contemplation on subjects of the deepest interest to humanity. Physicus. — I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair.* * Salmonia, p. 136. By the late Sir Humphry... | |
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I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights... 
