 These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider...  The British Essayists: The Idler - Page 116by Alexander Chalmers - 1802Full view - About this book
 | 1761 - 308 pages
...thofe who have finimed their courfe and are now receiving their reward. THESE are the great occafions which force the mind .to take refuge in Religion : When we have no help in ourfelves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power; and to what hope may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 442 pages
...thofe who have finifhed their courfe, and are now receiving their reward. Thefe are the great occafions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : when we have no help in ourfelves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 432 pages
...thofe who have finifhed their courfe, and are now receiving their reward. Thefe are the great occafions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : when we have no help in ourfelves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may... | |
 | 1795 - 540 pages
...fnuls difcntangled from the body, and niaJc like ang.'Is. Thefc are the great occafions which fircc thi mind to take refuge in religion. When we have no help in ourfelves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and greater power Î And to what hope may... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1794 - 738 pages
...thofe who have fmifhed their courfe, and are now receiving their reward. Tliefe are the great occafions which force the mind to take refuge in religion. When we have no help in ourfelves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power P And to what hope may... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...and surely this joy is not incommunicable to souls disentangled from the body, and made like angels. These are the great occasions which force the mind...power? and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and heart, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST ? :ek succour in the Gospel, which has... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Consolation - 1803 - 88 pages
...perifhing mariner) to be properly known and prized. » Luke. x. 43•'"Thefeare the great occafions which force the mind to take refuge in religion : When we have no help in ourfelves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater Power ? and to what hope may... | |
 | Hannah Adams - Apologetics - 1804 - 398 pages
...finifheJ their courfe, and are now receiving their reward. Thefe are the great occafions, which furce the mind to take refuge in religion ; when we have no help in ourfclve=, what can remain, but that we lock up to a higher and a greater Power ? And to what hope... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Consolation - 1806 - 112 pages
...occafions which " force the mind to take refuge in reli" gion : When we have no help in our" felves, what can remain but that we " look up to a higher...and a greater " power ? and to what hope may we not " raife our eyes and hearts when we con" fider that the GREATEST Power is the " BEST." *' Surely there... | |
 | 1807 - 682 pages
...part in the attention of those who have finished their course, and are now receiving their reward. These are the great occasions which force the mind...what can remain, but that we look up to a higher and greater power ? And to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest... | |
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