 There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.  The Spectator - Page 257by Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...friendly climate, where they may spread and flourish to ull eternity? There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion...this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes toward the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it. To look upon the soul... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 602 pages
...otherwise is abundantly noble, the bad effect of the close is sensible : " There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion...nature, without ever arriving at a period in it." When however the stress of the voice and the significancy of the sentence rest on words of this kind,... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 pages
...otherwise is abundantly noble, the bad effect of the close is sensible : " There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion...nature, without ever arriving at a period in it." When however the stress of the voice and the significancy of the sentence rest on words of this kind,... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...friendly climate, where they may spread and flourish to all eternity? There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion...perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period3 in it. To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is... | |
 | 1888 - 102 pages
...friendly climate, where they may spread and flourish to all eternity? There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion,...as going on from strength to strength; to consider she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be... | |
 | Edward Dwight Walker - Reincarnation - 1888 - 696 pages
...development. Addison wrote : " There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing consideration than that of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards...strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still adding virtue... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...Emerson. Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evils. — Goethe. SOUL. SOUL. To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still adding... | |
 | A. Meserole - English essays - 1896 - 450 pages
...friendly climate, where they may spread and flourish to all eternity ! There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion...this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes toward the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it. To look upon the soul... | |
 | Quotations - 1897 - 308 pages
...melancholy That wings the soul, and points her to the skies. — Dyer. The Ruins of Rome, line 346. To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to> shine lorever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still adding... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 452 pages
...friendly climate, where they may spread and flourish to all eternity ? There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion...on from strength to strength, to consider that she to shine for ever with new accessions of glory and brighten to all eternity ; that she will be still... | |
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