 I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 5231828Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy : but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I...prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; fur it nii'kt'8 We a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes -vanish ;... | |
 | 1853 - 202 pages
...Humphrey, " no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I...prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing. Thus it is evident, from the preceeding brief biographical sketches, that there is nothing in the constitution... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...BLESSEDNESS. — If I could choose what of all things would be at the same time the most delightful and useful to me, I should prefer a, firm religious belief to every other blessing ; for this makes life a discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes when all earthly ones vanish ; throws... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1853 - 786 pages
...HELIGION. I ENVY no quality of the mind or intellect of others, not genius, will, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I prefer a firm religious belief to any other blessing ; for it makes discipline of good, creates new... | |
 | Pocket companion - 1854 - 118 pages
...I envy no quality of the mind, or intellect in others, nor genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I...existence, the most gorgeous of all lights ; awakens life in death, and from corruption and decay, calls up beauty and divinity ; makes an instrument of torture... | |
 | 1879 - 444 pages
...power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe would be most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious...discipline of goodness ; creates new hopes when all other hopes vanish ; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of... | |
 | 1894 - 868 pages
...brilliant lecturer and man of science, Sir Humphry Davy, — " not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should picfer a firm religious belief to every other blessing. For it makes life a disciplino of goodness,... | |
 | William Kay - Christianity - 1855 - 150 pages
...feelings1: "I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others — not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I...destruction, of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights, calling up the most delightful visions, where the sensualist and sceptic view only gloom, decay, and... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1855 - 632 pages
...starvation.] A GEEAT MAN'S PBEFEEENCE. — I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I...when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the destruction of existence the most gorgeous of all lights, awakens life even in death, makes an instrument... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1855 - 590 pages
...starvation.] A GREAT MAN'S PREFERENCE. — I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I...it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopee when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the destruction of existence the most gorgeous... | |
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