| Joseph Addison - 1801 - 364 páginas
...mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with fuch an inward fatisfa&ion, that the duty is fufficiemly rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with fa much pleafure, that were there no pofitive... | |
| 1803 - 420 páginas
...2. ver. 1. No weak, no common wing shall bear My rising body through the air. t . . CREECH. 1 HERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude....sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not, like the practice1 of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 páginas
...abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. ON GRATITUDE. THERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind, than gratitude. It is accompanied with so great inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 288 páginas
...mind, than gratitude. It is accompanied with ftich inward fatijhictron, that the duty, is fufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not, like the practice of many other virtues,'difikultand painful, but attended with fo much plcafure that-were there norpo(hive\command... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 318 páginas
...tenuiferar fennd HOR. i OI xz. i. No weak, no common wing shall bear My rising body through the air. CREECH. THERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind....accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the'duty is sufficientlyrewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues,... | |
| 1808 - 306 páginas
...rising hody through the air, CREECH. HTHERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitnde. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded hy the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, hut attended... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 páginas
...on the duty and pleasure of being grateful to our benefactors, is as follows. There is not (says he) a more pleasing exercise of the mind, than gratitude. It is accompanied with so great inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 páginas
...a Praxiteles could not give several, nice touches and finishings. ADDISON SECTION H. ON GRATITUDE. THERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind, than gratitude. It is accompanied with so inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not, like... | |
| Thomas Laurie (minister of Newburn.) - 1811 - 136 páginas
...your attention the important precept which the text contains. " Offer unto God thanksgiving" Indeed, ' there is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude.' This duty is easy ; it is natural to man. ' I saw,' said the ancient sage, ' one slave give part of... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 páginas
...or a Praxiteles could not give several nice touches and mishings, ADDISON. SECTION II. On gratitude. THERE is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind, than gratitude. It is accompanied with so great inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not... | |
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