 My friend, you owe this uncommon grief to having thrown off the principles of religion : for if you had not, you would have been consoled with the firm belief that the good lady, who was not only the best of mothers, but the most pious of Christians,...  A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Page 303by Robert Chambers - 1870Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...belief, that the good lady, who was not only the best of mothers, but the mott pious of Chrittians, was completely happy in the realms of the just." To which David replied, " though I throw out my tpeculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet, in other ^hings, I do... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 580 pages
...she, who had been one of the most pious of Christians, had entered into a state of eternal happiness. To which David replied : ' though I throw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet in other things I do not think so differently from... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 582 pages
...she, who had been one of the most pious of Christians, had entered into a state of eternal happiness. To which David replied : ' though I throw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical tvorld, yet in other things I do not think so differently from... | |
 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1832 - 452 pages
...would have been consoled by the ' firm belief, that the arood lady, who was not ' only the best of mothers, but the most pious ' of Christians, was completely...replied, ' " though I throw out my speculations to enter' tain and employ the learned and metaphysical ' world, yet, in other things, I do not think so... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 438 pages
...consoled by the ' firm belief, that the arood lady, who was not ' only the best of mothers, but the moat pious ' of Christians, was completely happy in the...replied, ' " though I throw out my speculations to enter' tain and employ the learned and metaphysical ' world, yet, in other things, I do not think so... | |
 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1832 - 442 pages
...the ' firm belief, that the <rood lady, who was not ' only the best of mothers, but the most piotts ' of Christians, was completely happy in the ' realms...replied, ' " though I throw out my speculations to entar^ ' tain and employ the learned and metaphysical ' world, yet, in other things, I do not think... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 464 pages
...the ' firm belief, that the good lady, who was not * only the best of mothers, but the most piou« ' of Christians, was completely happy in the ' realms of the just." To which David replied, ' " though / throw out my speculations to enter4 tain and employ the learned and metaphysical ' world, yet, in... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 pages
...you would have been consoled with the firm belief that the good lady, who was not only the best of mothers but the most pious of Christians, was completely...things, I do not think so differently from the rest of the world as you imagine.' " l One of Hume's most intimate friends was Dr. Clephane, a physician in... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Philosophy - 1846 - 520 pages
...you would have been consoled with the firm belief that the good lady, who was not only the best of mothers but the most pious of Christians, was completely...metaphysical world, yet, in other things, I do not think so diiferently from the rest of the world as you imagine.' " 1 One of Hume's most intimate friends was... | |
 | 1848 - 796 pages
...not, you would have been consoled by the firm belief that the good lady, who was not only the best of mothers, but the most pious of Christians, was completely...replied, 'Though I throw out my speculations to entertain and employ the learned and metaphysical world, yet, in other things, I do not think so differently... | |
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