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" To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship,... "
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... - Page 120
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pages
...be like a dream in a fever, busy and turbulent, but confused and indistinct. Works, v. 239. Church: To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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Peale's Popular Compendium of Useful Knowledge, Embracing Science, History ...

Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 pages
...depths : all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason. Coleridge. Religion. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the inind, unless...
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The Church at Home and Abroad, Volume 10

Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1891 - 582 pages
...Johnson, in his strong and rugged fashion, "is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and re-impressed by external ordinances and stated calls to worship and the...
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Milton, with an Introduction and Notes

Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...10 Church of England. To be of no church, is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the...
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Manual of Useful Information: Embracing More Than 100,000 Facts, Figures and ...

1893 - 492 pages
...appropriate form when both philosophy and theology were highly developed. THE TESTIMONY OF LITERATURE. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland

Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...the church of England. To be of no church, is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordi- 10 nances, by stated calls to worship, and...
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The Heart of Oak Books, Volume 6

Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...the Church of England. To be of no church is dangerous. Keligion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the...
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Proceedings of the Annual Session of the Bar Association of Tennessee

Tennessee Bar Association - 1899 - 718 pages
...Gregory. ' ' Religion, ' ' says Dr. Johnson, in his life of Milton, ' ' of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and re-impressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship and the...
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Lives of Milton and Addison

Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...the Church of England. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by 1 5 external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and...
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Essays from the Rambler and the Idler, with Passages from the Lives of the ...

Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 pages
...the Church of England. To bejpfjio Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, "and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, 'will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the...
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