 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 472 pages
...taste for the pleasures of the understanding, and the heart. w On Religious Retirement. [SERMON ix The great and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever bean addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteris tu- ot little and frivolous minds, to be... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...the pions and the virtuous, bave ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds, to be wholly occupied with the vulgar objects of life. These fill up their desires, and supply all the entertainment which their coarse apprehensions... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...sensible objects, and has never apquired any taste for the pleasures of the understanding and the heart ? The great and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds, to be wholly occupied with... | |
 | Charles Buck - Anecdotes - 1831 - 418 pages
...virtuous," says a divine, " have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds, to be wholly occupied with the vulgar objects of life. These fill up their de. sires, and supply all the entertainment which their coarse... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - 214 pages
...suggestions, which the world had overpowered and suppressed. PROPER SUBJECTS FOR MEDITATION BLAIR. THE great and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds to be wholly occupied with... | |
 | Charles Buck - Anecdotes - 1841 - 520 pages
...virtuous,' says a divine, ' have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds to be wholly occupied with the vulgar objects of life. These fill up their desires, and supply all the entertainment which their coarse apprehensions... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 288 pages
...heaven, In thee the hosts of angels and blessed spirits eternally rejoice. EXAMPLES OF LIVES OF DEVOTION. The great and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to serious retirement in order to devout meditation on God and His works. While the man of public spirit... | |
 | Yorkshire (England) - 1891 - 330 pages
...wait, with judicious circumspection, the happy result which sooner or later will reward his labours. "The great and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds to be wholly occupied with... | |
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The great and the worthy, the pious and the virtuous, have ever been addicted to serious retirement. It is the characteristic of little and frivolous minds to be wholly occupied with the vulgar objects of life. These fill up their desires, and supply... 
