 ... made to feel the superiority of the spiritual to the material part of our nature. Instead of being continually solicited by the influence and irritation of sensible objects, the mind can retire within herself, and expatiate in the cool and quiet walks...  Calendar of the McGill University, Montreal - Page 61by McGill University - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1814 - 312 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensative appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...and is on that account incomparably more valuable. Its duration, to say nothing of its other properties, renders it more valuable. It may be repeated... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1824 - 726 pages
...the mind can retire within herself, and expatiate in the cool and quiet walks of contem- , plation. The Author of nature has wisely annexed a pleasure to the exercise of out active powers, and particularly to the pursuit of truth, which, if it be in some instances less... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1825 - 508 pages
...satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites; the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised ; and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...more durable than the gratifications of sense : and this duration, to say nothing of its other properties, renders it incomparably more valuable. It may... | |
 | Education - 1827 - 554 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...and is on that account, incomparably more valuable. It rnay be repeated without satiety, and pleases afresh on every reflection upon it. These are selfcreated... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 542 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...and is, on that account, incomparably more valuable. Its duration, to say nothing of its other properties, renders it more valuable. It may be repeated... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 660 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...and is on that account incomparably more valuable. Its duration, to say nothing of its other properties, renders it more valuable. It may be repeated... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 542 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...and is, on that account, incomparably more valuable. Its duration, to say nothing of its other properties, renders it more valuable. It may be repeated... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...and is on that account incomparably more valuable. Its duration, to say nothing of its other properties, renders it more valuable. It may be repeated... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 504 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...and is on that account incomparably more valuable. Its duration, to say nothing of its other properties, renders it more valuable. It may be repeated... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1834 - 536 pages
...for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites, the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised, and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual...and is, on that account, incomparably more valuable. Its duration, to say nothing of its other properties, renders it more valuable. It may be repeated... | |
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