Sermons: Volume the third, Nide 2A. Strahan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1790 - 434 sivua |
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Sivu 11
... pleasure melted into effeminacy , nor by distress funk into dejection ; fuch is the mind which forms the diftinction ... pleasures , but zealous for pub- lic intereft and happiness ; magnanimous , without being proud ; humble , without ...
... pleasure melted into effeminacy , nor by distress funk into dejection ; fuch is the mind which forms the diftinction ... pleasures , but zealous for pub- lic intereft and happiness ; magnanimous , without being proud ; humble , without ...
Sivu 30
... pleasure . He gives , affifts , and relieves , not merely because he is bound to do fo , but because it would be painful for him to refrain . Hence , the smallest benefit he confers rifes in its value , on account of its carrying the ...
... pleasure . He gives , affifts , and relieves , not merely because he is bound to do fo , but because it would be painful for him to refrain . Hence , the smallest benefit he confers rifes in its value , on account of its carrying the ...
Sivu 31
... happiness of him who poffeffes it , and the various pleasures to which it gives him accefs . If he be master of riches or influence , it affords him the 6 means SERM . 11 . means of increasing his own enjoyment On Senfibility . 31.
... happiness of him who poffeffes it , and the various pleasures to which it gives him accefs . If he be master of riches or influence , it affords him the 6 means SERM . 11 . means of increasing his own enjoyment On Senfibility . 31.
Sivu 33
... pleasures which flow from the fame fource . Senfibi- lity heightens in general the human pow- ers , and is connected with acuteness in all our feelings . If it make us more alive to fome painful fenfations , in return , it ren- ders the ...
... pleasures which flow from the fame fource . Senfibi- lity heightens in general the human pow- ers , and is connected with acuteness in all our feelings . If it make us more alive to fome painful fenfations , in return , it ren- ders the ...
Sivu 40
... pleasures . It is requifite for our acceptance either with God or man . At the fame time , if it remain an ... pleasure into many criminal deeds . Almost every man values himself on poffeffing virtue in one or other of its forms . He ...
... pleasures . It is requifite for our acceptance either with God or man . At the fame time , if it remain an ... pleasure into many criminal deeds . Almost every man values himself on poffeffing virtue in one or other of its forms . He ...
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
abuſed affift affume againſt arife behold bitterneſs bleffed cauſe character Chriftian cife conduct confcience confequence confider confiderable courfe courſe death defire difpofitions diftinction diſcharge divine duties earth envy evil exerciſe facrament facred fafely faid fame fecret felves fenfe fenfibility fentiments fhall fhould fhow firſt fituation fociety fome fometimes forrow fortune foul fources fpirit friends ftate ftation fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuperior fuppofed fupport fure goodneſs happineſs heart heaven Hence higheſt himſelf honour human intereft itſelf juft laft laſt Lord mankind meaſure ment midſt mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary obferve occafion ourſelves paffed paffions paſs paſt patience perfons pleaſures poffefs praiſe preſent principle proper purpoſe purſuits racter raiſed rank reaſon reft religion reſpect rife ſcene SERM ſhall ſhow ſome ſtate ſuch temper thee thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou tion truft univerfe uſeful virtue virtuous whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh
Suositut otteet
Sivu 185 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Sivu 399 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the Lord his God : Which made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that therein is : Which keepeth truth for ever: Which executeth judgment for the oppressed : Which giveth food to the hungry.
Sivu 45 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage* are an hundred and thirty years...
Sivu 27 - ... to rejoice with them that rejoice, and to weep with them that weep...
Sivu 10 - The statesman, the orator or the poet, may be famous; while yet the man himself is far from being honoured. We envy his abilities. We wish to rival them.
Sivu 9 - The former is a loud and noisy Applause the latter a more silent and internal Homage Fame floats on, the Breath of the Multitude Honour rests on the Judgment of the Thinking Fame may give Praise while it withholds Esteem...
Sivu 106 - ... or envy. Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy, not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel.
Sivu 309 - O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling. * Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God.
Sivu 235 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many.
Sivu 42 - He who pretends to great sensibility towards men, and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion, no heart to admire and adore the great Father of the universe, has reason to distrust the truth and delicacy of his sensibility.