Thoughts on Religion & Other Subjects [with Pious Reflections for Every Day in the Month & Prayers by Fénelon.].1846 - 283 pages |
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Page 7
... discern- ing it , and divert themselves with the officiousness of such as charitably warn them of their danger . Thus not the zeal alone of those who heartily seek God , demonstrates the truth of religion , but likewise the blindness of ...
... discern- ing it , and divert themselves with the officiousness of such as charitably warn them of their danger . Thus not the zeal alone of those who heartily seek God , demonstrates the truth of religion , but likewise the blindness of ...
Page 8
... discern that the only method of succeed- ing in our temporal affairs , is to prove ourselves honest , faithful , prudent , and capable of advancing the interest of our friends ; because men naturally love nothing but that which some way ...
... discern that the only method of succeed- ing in our temporal affairs , is to prove ourselves honest , faithful , prudent , and capable of advancing the interest of our friends ; because men naturally love nothing but that which some way ...
Page 12
... discern the greatness and the meanness of human condition , together with the cause and reason of both . What religion , the Christian only excepted , could ever pretend to be thus knowing . Other religions , as those of the heathens ...
... discern the greatness and the meanness of human condition , together with the cause and reason of both . What religion , the Christian only excepted , could ever pretend to be thus knowing . Other religions , as those of the heathens ...
Page 21
... discerning powers been either extinguished or disturbed ; his senses being never the servants , and very often the masters of his reason , have driven him on the pursuit of unwarrantable pleasures . All the creatures with which he is ...
... discerning powers been either extinguished or disturbed ; his senses being never the servants , and very often the masters of his reason , have driven him on the pursuit of unwarrantable pleasures . All the creatures with which he is ...
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... discern the spring of those wonderful con- trarieties , which , while they astonish all men , do no less distract and divide them . • Observe again all the movements of greatness and glory , which the sense of so many miseries is not ...
... discern the spring of those wonderful con- trarieties , which , while they astonish all men , do no less distract and divide them . • Observe again all the movements of greatness and glory , which the sense of so many miseries is not ...
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