 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 Seiten
...important ends. 3. He, who would take you to a place of vice, or immorality, is not your real friend. 4. If gratitude — is due from man — to man, how much more, from man — to his Maker ! 5. Arbitrary power — no man can either gire , or hold; even conquest cannot confer it : hence,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 Seiten
...important emls. 3. He, who would take you to a place of vice, or immorality, is not your reut friend. 4. If gratitude — is due from man — to man. how much more, from man — to his Maker ! 5. Arbitrary power — no mancan cither gire, or hold,- even conquest cannot confer it: hence, law,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 398 Seiten
...who would take you to a place of vice, or immorality, is not your real friend. 4. If grtiti/iidc — is due from man — to man, how much more, from man — to his Maker ! ft. Arbitrary power — tin mart can cither (rite, or halil,- even conquest cannot confer it: hence.... | |
 | William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald De Ros (23d baron) - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it for the natural gratification which accompanies it. Henry II., with all his errors, seems to have been capable of this fine sentiment... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1851 - 204 Seiten
...dangerous vice. If those be stars that paint the galaxy. The garrison consisted of one thousand men. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man Men doubt, because they stand so thick in the sky, to his Maker. The earth and the other planets gravitate... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1853 - 194 Seiten
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command .which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...much more from man to his Maker ? The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties, which proceed more immediately from his hand, but even... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 560 Seiten
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...much more from man to his Maker? The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us these bounties which proceed more immediately from his hand, but even... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1853 - 572 Seiten
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 | George Macilwain - 1853 - 402 Seiten
...exercise of the mind than gratitude. Were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification which accompanies it. — ADDISON.' SIR WILLIAM BLIZARD was an eminent surgeon and an enthusiastic... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 Seiten
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor anv recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...much more from man to his Maker ? The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bountics which proceed more immediately from his hand, but even... | |
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It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command... 
