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" To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship,... "
The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work - Page 181
by Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 536 pages
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...condemn, than what to approve. He has not associated himself with any denomination of Protestants : we know rather what he was not, than what he was. He was not of the Church of Rome ; h* was not of the Church of England. To be of no Church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...condemn, than what to approve. He has not associated himself with any denomination of Protestants : we know rather what he was not, than what he was....church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...condemn, than what to approve. He has not associated himself with any denomination of Protestants : we know rather what he was not than what he was. He...church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...condemn, than what to approve. He has not associated himself with any denomination of Protestwits : we know rather what he was not, than what he was....church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...condemn, than what to approve. He has not associated himself with any denomination of Protestants ; we know rather what he was not, than what he was....is dangerous. Religion, of which * the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by Faith and Hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...condemn, than what to approve. He has not associated himself with any denomination of protestants ; we know rather what he was not, than what he was. He was not of the chnrch of Rome ; he was not of the church of England. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 25

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1825 - 544 pages
...enamel of 'virtue'," and that pregnant sentence of Johnson's cannot be too often enforced, that, " To be of no church is dangerous : religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...approve. He has not associated himself with any denomination of pro test ants : we know rathe,]' what be was not, than what he was. He was not of the church...church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...his notions of the external services of religion Dr. Johnson has opposed this fine remark ; that " e to be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton: Derived ..., Volume 6

Henry John Todd - Poets, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...• notions of the external services of religion Dr. Johnson has opposed this fine remark ; that " e to be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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