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" 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 173
1849
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 38

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 636 pages
...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...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

Religion - 1830 - 758 pages
...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...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1850 - 698 pages
...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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 38

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...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...
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Salmonia: Or, Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations. With Some ...

Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1828 - 326 pages
...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...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 38-39

1828 - 592 pages
...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...
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Spirit of the English Magazines

1829 - 512 pages
...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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Debate on the Evidences of Christianity: Containing an ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Owen - Apologetics - 1829 - 568 pages
...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...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 14

Great Britain - 1830 - 494 pages
...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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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 14

1830 - 478 pages
...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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