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... expectation , to a future infinite balance of happiness in his favour , this principle , in proportion as it is kept in mind , and is mixed up with the ordinary intercourse and events of life , will gra- dually acquire an overpowering ...
... expectation , to a future infinite balance of happiness in his favour , this principle , in proportion as it is kept in mind , and is mixed up with the ordinary intercourse and events of life , will gra- dually acquire an overpowering ...
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... expectation , which are necessary to the at- tainment of this happy effect , cannot be ac- quired without the aid of divine revelation . For such considerations can have no prac- tical effect upon the mind , unless the ob- ject be ...
... expectation , which are necessary to the at- tainment of this happy effect , cannot be ac- quired without the aid of divine revelation . For such considerations can have no prac- tical effect upon the mind , unless the ob- ject be ...
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... expectation must necessarily be so faint and feeble , that it can never avail as a sti- mulus to heroic exertion , or as an induce- ment to virtuous self - denial , and a submis- sion to great sacrifices for the public good . Here ...
... expectation must necessarily be so faint and feeble , that it can never avail as a sti- mulus to heroic exertion , or as an induce- ment to virtuous self - denial , and a submis- sion to great sacrifices for the public good . Here ...
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... expectation of the promised blessing induced him to surrender all his secular ad- vantages and prospects : and thus he be- came the father of the faithful ; or in other words the pattern of believers . The pious patriarch exhibited an ...
... expectation of the promised blessing induced him to surrender all his secular ad- vantages and prospects : and thus he be- came the father of the faithful ; or in other words the pattern of believers . The pious patriarch exhibited an ...
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... expectations well - founded ; and the extreme of folly to live as if the religion of Jesus were a fraud upon the un- derstanding , and existence were to termi- nate with the present life . The simplicity and spirituality of the ...
... expectations well - founded ; and the extreme of folly to live as if the religion of Jesus were a fraud upon the un- derstanding , and existence were to termi- nate with the present life . The simplicity and spirituality of the ...
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