 | William O'Regan - Lawyers - 1817 - 346 pages
...interested expiation. — How can we behold sueh acts, without regarding them as forming a claim to, as springing from a consciousness of immortality ?...existence that could not terminate in the grave, but was to commence in death. " But these uses are condemned, as being not only superstitious but Popish... | |
 | William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 pages
...interested expiation.— How can we behold such acts, without regarding them as forming a claim to, as springing from a consciousness of immortality ?...existence that could not terminate in the grave, but was to commence in death. ! I " But these uses are condemned, as being not only superstitious but Popish... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1819 - 390 pages
...interested expiation, — How can we behold such acts, without regarding them as forming a claim to, as springing from a consciousness of immortality ?...all ages the hour of death has been considered as au interval of more than ordinary illumination; as if some rays from the light of the approaching world... | |
 | Orators - 1833 - 558 pages
...moments of human life so spent in acts of gratuitous benevolence, or even of interested expiation.—How can we behold such acts, without regarding them as...existence that could not terminate in the grave, but was to commence in death. " But these uses are condemned, as being not only superstitious, but popish... | |
 | Orators - 1834 - 566 pages
...beautiful in the sight of man ought it to be, to see the dying Christian so employed — to see the last moments of human life so spent in acts of gratuitous...existence that could not terminate in the grave, but was to commence in death. " But these uses are condemned, as being not only superstitious, but popish... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...of interested expiation. How can we behold euch acts, without regarding them as forming a claim to, as springing from a consciousness of immortality?...an existence that could not terminate in the grave, hut was to commence in death. riRRAN. 'Tis not the bared pate, the bended knees, Gilt tipstaffs, Tyrian... | |
 | John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1840 - 562 pages
...moments of human life so spent in acts of gratuitous benevolence, or even of interested expiation.—How can we behold such acts, without regarding them as...existence that could not terminate in the grave, but was to commence in death. " But these uses are condemned, as being not only superstitious, but popish... | |
 | 1842 - 452 pages
...cheap and easy is the service of virtue, aud how dear do we pay for our vices ! The Hour of Death. — In all ages the hour of death has been considered...some rays from the light of the approaching world had fonnd their way to the darkness of the departing spirit, and revealed to it an existence that could... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 558 pages
...beautiful in the sight of man ought it to be, to see the dying Christian so employed — to see the last moments of human life so spent in acts of gratuitous...existence that could not terminate in the grave, but was to commence in death. MERRY vs. POWER. ' in defeating even the heterodox charity of the dead. I... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - 1845 - 660 pages
...of interested expiation. How can we behold such acts, without regarding them as forming a claim to, as springing from a consciousness of, immortality...existence that could not terminate in the grave, but was to commence in death. But these uses are condemned, as being not only superstitious but Popish... | |
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How can we behold such acts, without regarding them as forming a claim, as springing from a consciousness of immortality ? In all ages the hour of death has been considered as an interval of more than ordinary illumination ; as if some rays from the light... 
