 It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction, that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. It is not like the practice of many other virtues, difficult and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command...  The Spectator - Pagina 2161729Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 726 pagine
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for tho natural gratification that accompanies it. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 pagine
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge...to man, how much more from man to his Maker ? The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties which proceed more immediately from his hand,... | |
 | William Sherwood - 1856 - 466 pagine
...with so much pleasure | that were there no positive command 1 which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it, for the natural gratification it affords. • If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more ' from man to his Maker ! The Supreme... | |
 | William Lennox Lascelles Fitzgerald-de-Ros De Ros (23d baron) - 1857 - 458 pagine
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any Recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it for the natural gratification which accompanies it. Henry II., with all his errors, seems .to have been capahle of this fine sentiment... | |
 | John Richardson Major - 1858 - 216 pagine
...and, in short, pardoned the guilty father for this early promise of virtue in the son. B 6 XXVIII. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker? The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties which proceed more immediately from his hand,... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pagine
...attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which requires it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it for the natural gratification which accompanies it : but, the better to illustrate what I have advanced on this subject, I will relate... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 470 pagine
...and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that yjere there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter, a...to man, how much more from man to his Maker ! The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties, which proceed more immediately from his... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - 1864 - 344 pagine
...and painful, but attended with so much pleasure, that were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter, a...from man to man, how much more from man to his Maker 1 The Supreme Being does not only confer upon us those bounties, which proceed more immediately from... | |
 | Joseph Guy (of Bristol.) - 1864 - 176 pagine
...please. Spectator. 13. GRATITUDE. There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. If gratitude is due from man to man, how much more from man. to his Maker ! Every blessing we enjoy is the gift of him, who is the great Author of good, and the Father of mercies.... | |
 | William Fleming - 1867 - 450 pagine
...exercise of the mind than gratitude. Were there no positive command which enjoined it, nor any recompense laid up for it hereafter, a generous mind would indulge in it for the natural gratification which accompanies it." — Addison. 7. The exercise of the Moral Sentiments is naturally productive... | |
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