 ... to the beneficent Author of it ? Thus to enjoy the blessings he has sent, is virtue and obedience ; and to reject them merely as means of pleasure, is pitiable ignorance, or absurd perverseness. Infinite goodness is the source of created existence...  The Rambler, by S. Johnson - Strona 2721806Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1773 - Liczba stron: 394
...to " rife incefiantly from lower degrees of happinefs to " higher. They have each faculties afligned them for " various orders of delights." ' What, cried I, is this the language of RELI• GION ? Does fiie lead her votaries through flowery ' paths, and bid them pafs an unlaborious... | |
 | John Wesley - 1787 - Liczba stron: 726
...is to rife incefTantly from lower degree* of happinefs to higher. They have each faculties afligned them for various orders of delights." " What, cried I, Is this the language of Religion ? Does flie lead her votaries through flowery paths, and bid them pah an inlaborious life ? Where are the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...rife c* inceflantly from lower degrees of happinefs to cx higher. They have each faculties afligned them " for various orders of delights." " What," cried I, " is this the language of RE" LIGION ? Does fhe lead her votaries through 'c flowery paths, and bid them pafs an unlaborious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Liczba stron: 626
...rife "« inceflantly from lower degrees of happinefs to " higher. They have each faculties affigned them " for various orders of delights." " What," cried I, " is this the language of RE" LIGION ? Does fhe lead her votaries through " flowery paths, and bid them pafs an unlaborious "... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1794 - Liczba stron: 568
...is to rife inceflantly from lower degrees of happinefs to higher. They have each faculties affigned them for various orders of delights." "What!" cried I, "is this the language of Religion? Does fhe lead her votaries through X flowery ilowery paths, and bid them pafs an unlaborious life? Where... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - Liczba stron: 460
...to rife incef" fantly from lower degrees of happinefs to higher. " They have each faculties affigned them for various «' orders of delights." '' 'What," cried I, " is this the language of RE" LIGIOM ? Does fhc lead her votaries through flow*' ery paths, and bid them pafs an unlaborious... | |
 | 1801 - Liczba stron: 342
...rife inceflantly from, " lower degrees of happinefs to higher. They have *' each faculties affigned them for various orders of " delights." " What," cried I, « is this the language of RELI" GION ? Does fhe lead her votaries through " flowery paths, and bid them pafs an unlaborious "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - Liczba stron: 460
...rife incef" fantly from lower degrees of happinefs to higher. *' They have each faculties affigned them for various " orders of delights/' " What," cried I, " is this the language of RE" LIOION ? Does fhe lead her votaries through flow** ery paths, and bid them pafs an unlaborious... | |
 | 1803 - Liczba stron: 322
...created existence ; the proper tendency of ' every rational being, from the highest order ofrap' tured seraphs to the meanest rank of men, is to rise ' incessantly from lowerdegrees of happiness to higher. ' They have each faculties assigned them for various ' orders... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - Liczba stron: 380
...destined for the " seat of the human race, and consider whether a lt world thus exquisitely fratned could be meant " for the abode of misery and pain. For what...votaries through " flowery paths, and bid them pass an unlaborious " life ? Where are the painful toils of virtue, the " mortifications of penitents, the... | |
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