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 8
... inclined , but even those who cannot unsettle their judgment , do yet esteem it reput- able to take up even a counterfeit diffidence . For we may observe the greatest number to be of this latter kind , false pretenders to infidelity ...
... inclined , but even those who cannot unsettle their judgment , do yet esteem it reput- able to take up even a counterfeit diffidence . For we may observe the greatest number to be of this latter kind , false pretenders to infidelity ...
Page 31
... inclined to love nothing but him , and to hate no- thing but themselves . They are sensible of their own weakness and ignorance , that they are of themselves utterly incapable of coming to God , and that , unless he is pleased ...
... inclined to love nothing but him , and to hate no- thing but themselves . They are sensible of their own weakness and ignorance , that they are of themselves utterly incapable of coming to God , and that , unless he is pleased ...
Page 35
... inclined to think , that there is somewhat more in all this , than a mere hit of chance , must have utterly abandoned his senses . But now were we not miserably enslaved by our pas- sions , a week and a century would , upon this view ...
... inclined to think , that there is somewhat more in all this , than a mere hit of chance , must have utterly abandoned his senses . But now were we not miserably enslaved by our pas- sions , a week and a century would , upon this view ...
Page 50
... inclined , - -seems to have been this : had the spiritual sense been entirely disclosed to them , it being such as they were unable to love , to embrace , or even to bear , they would have had very little zeal to preserve their writings ...
... inclined , - -seems to have been this : had the spiritual sense been entirely disclosed to them , it being such as they were unable to love , to embrace , or even to bear , they would have had very little zeal to preserve their writings ...
Page 79
... inclination towards lightness and change , towards closing with the bribes of promises and rewards . Now should so much as any one of them have been drawn from his resolution by these charms , or have been shaken by prisons , by ...
... inclination towards lightness and change , towards closing with the bribes of promises and rewards . Now should so much as any one of them have been drawn from his resolution by these charms , or have been shaken by prisons , by ...
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