 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pagina’s
...enjoyments of the world J yet, so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...had my share, it confers a dignity on my affliction, so lifts me above the world. Man, I know, is but a worm; yet, methinks, I am then allied to God ! "... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 328 pagina’s
...enjoyments of the world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...had my share it confers a dignity on my affliction, so lifts me above the world. Man, I know, is but a worm, — yet, methinks I am then allied to God... | |
 | 1822 - 326 pagina’s
...enjoyments of the world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...had my share it confers a dignity on my affliction, so lifts me above the world. Man, I know, is but :t worm, — yet, methinks I am then allied to God... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 690 pagina’s
...enjoyments of the world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...my share — it confers a dignity on my affliction, — so lifts me above the world. — Man, I know, is but a worm, — • yet, methinks I am then allied... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 334 pagina’s
...enjoyments of the world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...my share — it confers a dignity on my affliction, — so lifts me above the world. — Man, I know, is but a worm, — yet, methinks I am then allied... | |
 | Ambrose Marten - 1826 - 926 pagina’s
...world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks, I feel it heightens them all. The thought of receiving it from God, adds...blessing of sentiment to that of sensation in every thing I possess ; and when calamities overtake me, and I have had my share, it confers a dignity on... | |
 | 1827 - 446 pagina’s
...enjoyments of the world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...had my share it confers a dignity on my affliction, so lifts me above the world Man, I know, is but a worm, — yet, methinks, I am then allied to God... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 662 pagina’s
...enjoyments of the world, yet, so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...good thing I possess ; and when calamities overtake iv.e, — and I have had my share, — it confers a dignity on my affliction, so lifts me above the... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 652 pagina’s
...enjoyments of the world, yet, so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures of life, methinks I feel it heighten them all. The thought of receiving it from...the blessing of sentiment to that of sensation in tvery good thing I possess ; and when calamities overtake ne, — and I have had my share, — it confers... | |
 | 1830 - 456 pagina’s
...the blessings of sense, or the enjoyments of the world, for it heightens all the pleasures of life. The thought of receiving it from God, adds the blessing...lifts me above the world. Man, I know, is but a worm, yet methinks I am then allied to God." But how subversive Atheism is of happiness, may be learned from... | |
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Why should not the same thing be said of religion ? Trust me, I feel it in the same way — an energy, an inspiration, which I would not lose for all the blessings of sense, or enjoyments of the world ; yet so far from lessening my relish of the pleasures... 
