 ... or envy. Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy, not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel.  Sermons - Page 106by Hugh Blair - 1790Full view - About this book
 | 1790 - 614 pages
...are without ufe. They require to be recalled, repeated» and enforced. Moral and religious inftrueUon derives its efficacy, not fo much from what men are...the dormant knowledge of any truths, but the vivid impreflion of them, which has influence on practice. ^Neither let it be thought, that fuch meditations... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1790 - 630 pages
...are without efe. They require to be recalled, repeated, and enforced. Moral and religious inllruftion derives its efficacy, not fo much from what men are taught to know, as from what they aie brought to teel. It is not the dormant knowledge of any truths, but the vivid imprefficn of them,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pages
...as to exempt men from being attacked by raflmefs, malice, or envy. Moral and religious inftruction derives its efficacy, not fo much from what men are...taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel. He who pretends to great fenfibility towards men, and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1805 - 288 pages
...onblemifhed, as to exempt men fr,gm the attacks of ralhnefs, malice or envy. .. Moral and religious inftm&ion derives its efficacy, not fo much from what men are taught to know, as from what thsy are brought to feeJ, He who pretends to great fenfibilky towards men, and yet has no feeling for... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...attacks of rashness; malice, or envy. Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy, not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel. He who pretends to great sensibility towards men, and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...attacks «f rashness, malice, or envy. Moral and religious instruction derives its ^ efficacy, not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel. He who pretends to great sensibility towards men, and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 370 pages
...to be recalled, repeated, and enforced. Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what...the dormant knowledge of any truths, but the vivid impression of them, which has influence on practice. Neither let it be thought that such meditations... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 526 pages
...recalled, repeated, and enforced. Moral and reliVOL. II. N gious instruction derives its efficacy not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what...the dormant knowledge of any truths, but the vivid impression of them, which has influence on practice. Neither let it be thought that such meditations... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...to others by imparting what they FEEL. Moral or religious instruction derives its efficacy, not so much from what men are taught to KNOW, — as from what they are brought to FEEL. I have been young, and now I am old; — yet have I never seen the RIGHTEOUS forsaken — nor his SEED... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...attacks of rashness, malice, or envy. Moral and religious instruction derives its efficacy, not so much from what men are taught to know, as from what they are brought to feel. He who pretends to great sensibility towards men, and yet has no feeling for the high objects of religion,... | |
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