 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...  The Spectator - Pàgina 2161729Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 316 pàgines
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recooipence laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...to man, how much more from man to his Maker ! The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties, which proceed more immediately from his... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 314 pàgines
...there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter, a genelous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification...man to man, how much more from man to his Maker! The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties, which proceed more immediately from his... | |
 | 1810 - 234 pàgines
...gratitude, that it depends only on the good-will : If I have will to be grateful, says Seneca, I am so. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker ? The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bountieg which proceed more immediately from his hand,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pàgines
...attended wMi 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 it affords. If gratitude is due from man to man. how much more from •man to his Maker ? The... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pàgines
...attended with so much pl«asure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...to man, how 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pàgines
...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 it affords. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker?—The Supreme... | |
 | Mr. Harrison (Ralph) - 1812 - 118 pàgines
...Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Creator > The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties, which proceed more immediately... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 262 pàgines
...it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification which it .iffords. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker : The Supreme Being does i.ot only confer upon us thofe bounties which proceed more immediately from bis... | |
 | James M'Donald - 1815 - 170 pàgines
...with so mr ch 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 it affords. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker? The supreme... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pàgines
...hereafter, a generous mind -would indulge in it, for the natural gratification which it affords. /s If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from Ban to his maker J The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those Ixtunties which proceed more... | |
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