The Works of Hannah More, Volume 10T. Cadell, 1830 |
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... give way to accidental evils . Many of their works , in almost every species of literature , exhibit such perfection as to stretch the capacity of the reader , while they kindle his admiration , and invest , with no inconsiderable ...
... give way to accidental evils . Many of their works , in almost every species of literature , exhibit such perfection as to stretch the capacity of the reader , while they kindle his admiration , and invest , with no inconsiderable ...
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... give the people some rules of duty , were over - matched by the priests , who knew that they should gratify them more by omitting what they so little relished . As to the people themselves , they did not desire to be better than the ...
... give the people some rules of duty , were over - matched by the priests , who knew that they should gratify them more by omitting what they so little relished . As to the people themselves , they did not desire to be better than the ...
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... give an additional and national interest to their bewitching fables . What a system did those countries uphold , when the more probable way to make the peo- ple virtuous , was to keep them ignorant of re- ligion ! - when the best way to ...
... give an additional and national interest to their bewitching fables . What a system did those countries uphold , when the more probable way to make the peo- ple virtuous , was to keep them ignorant of re- ligion ! - when the best way to ...
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... give light to the conscience and support to the mind ; a way founded , not on speculation , but evidence , which should carry conversion to the heart as well as conviction to the understanding . Such a religion God was preparing for ...
... give light to the conscience and support to the mind ; a way founded , not on speculation , but evidence , which should carry conversion to the heart as well as conviction to the understanding . Such a religion God was preparing for ...
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... give up their dead . In such a history , it is very true , fidelity was praise , fact was glory . And yet , if , on the one hand , there were no need of the rhetorician's art to embellish the tale , what mere rhetoricians could have ab ...
... give up their dead . In such a history , it is very true , fidelity was praise , fact was glory . And yet , if , on the one hand , there were no need of the rhetorician's art to embellish the tale , what mere rhetoricians could have ab ...
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