 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 páginas
...entertaining elevated views of moral duty, and looking with contempt on the pleasures of Ihe world. These arc, indeed, rare characters, but I should do injustice...confess that I have found them. In these instances 1 have uniformly been struck with a strong resemblance to patriarchal piety. That reverence for God,... | |
 | 1869 - 796 páginas
...them entertaining elevated views of moral duty, and looking with contempt on the pleasures of this world. These are indeed rare characters, but I should...injustice to my own conviction if I did not confess that I had found them. In these instances I have been uniformly struck with a strong resemblance to patriarchal... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 548 páginas
...them entertaining elevated views of moral duty, and looking with contempt- on the pleasures of this world. These are indeed rare characters, but I should...injustice to my own conviction if I did not confess that I had found them. In these instances I have been uniformly struck with a strong resemblance to patriarchal... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 544 páginas
...them entertaining elevated views of moral duty, and looking with contempt on the pleasures of this world. These are indeed rare characters, but I should...injustice to my own conviction if I did not confess that I had found them. In these instances I have been uniformly struck with a strong resemblance to patriarchal... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1888 - 570 páginas
...them entertaining elevated views of moral duty, and looking with contempt on the pleasures of this world. These are indeed rare characters, but I should...injustice to my own conviction if I did not confess that I had found them. In these instances I have been uniformly struck with a strong resemblance to patriarchal... | |
 | 1869 - 960 páginas
...them entertaining elevated views of moral duty, and looking with contempt on the pleasures of this world. These are indeed rare characters, but I should...injustice to my own conviction if I did not confess that I had found them. In these instances I have been uniformly struck with a strong resemblance to patriarchal... | |
| |
... converse with them on holy things. I have heard them insist with much earnestness on the duty of prayer, when they appeared to have some spiritual sense of its nature and importance. I have sometimes found them entertaining elevated views of moral... 