 I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, or fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 1731849Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 636 lehte
...could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all... | |
 | 1830 - 758 lehte
...could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodiiess — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction... | |
 | 1850 - 698 lehte
...could choose what would be most delightful and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 lehte
...could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far ahove all... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1828 - 326 lehte
...could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity: makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and far above all combinations... | |
 | 1828 - 592 lehte
...could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all... | |
 | 1829 - 512 lehte
...could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity : makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1829 - 568 lehte
...blessingi for it makes life a discipline of goodness — breathes new hopes when all earthly hopes vanishi and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lighti awakens life in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinityi makes an... | |
 | 1830 - 494 lehte
...could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all... | |
 | 1830 - 478 lehte
...could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for it...corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise ; and, far above all... | |
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