 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 pages
...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,... | |
 | American essays - 1869 - 796 pages
...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 - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 548 pages
...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 - Christianity and other religions - 1871 - 544 pages
...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 - Religions - 1888 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | American essays - 1869 - 960 pages
...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... | |
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... 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... 