 | Conduct of life - 1866 - 450 pages
...death, and from destruction and decay calls up beauty and divinity; makes an instrument of torture and shame, the ladder of ascent to paradise; and far above...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. — /Sir. Humphrey Davy. 1866.] Peter Waldo.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 540 pages
...death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of fortune, and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and, far...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic48 view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. — Sir Humphrey Davy. 12. REFLECTIONS... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity; makes an instrument of fortune, and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise; and, far above...security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and skeptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair.— Sir Humphrey Davy. 9. THE TRUE LIFE.—The... | |
 | Education - 1868 - 398 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...security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and skeptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. — Sir Humphrey Davy. THE TRUE LIFE. —... | |
 | John Wilson - 1868 - 376 pages
...divinity; makes an instrument of fortune, and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise; and, far above ail combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair." c. The mode of panctuation recommended... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, the gardens df the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair ! THE TEMPEST. The tempest has darken'd the face of the skies. The winds whistle wildly across the... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 pages
...hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of palms and amaranths, — the gardens of the blest, and the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist...view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. — SIR H. DAvY. KINDNESS TO THE DEAD. — Certainly it is the noblest thing in the world to do an... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1870 - 334 pages
...from the Temple even by violence. PHYS.—I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others, be it genius, power, wit, or fancy : but if I could choose...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair ! POIET.— You transiently referred, Halieus,... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 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 above...of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair. Sir H. Davy. PROVIDENCE. Whatever may happen... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 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. Sir H. Dary. PROVIDENCE. Whatever may happen... | |
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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... 
