 | John Rippingham - 1816 - 190 pagini
...transporting view of immortal glory. But such effort* of the mind are rare, and cannot long be' supported. When the spirit of meditation subsides, this lively...state decays ; and though the general belief of it remain, yet even good men, when they return to the ordinary business and cares of life, seem to rejoin... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 478 pagini
...transporting view of immortal glory. But such efforts of the mind are rare, and cannot be long supported. When the spirit of meditation subsides this lively sense of a future state VOL. i. o decays ; SERMON decays ; and though the general belief of it remain, yet even good men, when... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 540 pagini
...transporting view of immortal glory. But such efforts of the mind are rare, and cannot be long supported. When the spirit of meditation subsides, this lively...interests, which influence the rest of the world. From such reflections, a considerable difficulty respecting this important subject, either arises,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 488 pagini
...transporting view of immortal glory. But such efforts of the mind are rare,, and cannot be long supported. When the spirit of meditation subsides, this lively...state decays ; and though the general belief of it remain, yet even good men, when they return to 7* the ordinary business and cares of life, seem to... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1822 - 492 pagini
...transporting view of immortal glory. But such efforts of the mind are rare, and cannot be long supported. When the spirit of meditation subsides, this lively...state decays ; and though the general belief of it yet even good men, when they return to the ordinary business and cares of life, seem to rejoin the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 472 pagini
...transporting view of immortal glory. But such efforts of the mind are rare, and cannot be long supported. When the spirit of meditation subsides, this lively...state decays ; and though the general belief of it remain, yet even good men, when they return to the ordinary business and cares of life, seem to rejoin... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 470 pagini
...subsides, this lively sense of a future state decays ; and though the general belief of it remain, yet even good men, when they return to the ordinary business and cares of life, seem to reJQin the multitude, anil to reassume the same hopes, and fears, and interests which influence the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 470 pagini
...mind are rare, and cannot be long supported. When the spirit of meditation subsides, this lively seqee of a future state decays ; and though the general belief of it remain, yet even good men, when they return to the ordinary business and cares of life, seem to rejoin... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1848 - 162 pagini
...subject. 5. Our knowledge of a future world is very imperfect ; our ideas of it are faint and confused. When the spirit of meditation subsides, this lively...men, when they return to the ordinary business and en res of life, seem to rejoin the multitude, and to reassume the same hopes, and fears, and interests,... | |
 | Bishop Samuel Fallows - 1884 - 524 pagini
...transporting view of immortal glory. But sui efforts of the mind are rare, and cannot be long supported. When the spirit of meditation subsides, this lively sense of a future state decaVs; and though the general belief of it remams, yet even good men, when they return to the ordinary... | |
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Happy moments indeed there sometimes are in the lives of pious men, when, sequestered from worldly cares, and borne up on the wings of divine contemplation, they rise to a near and transporting view of immortal glory. But such efforts of the mind are... 
