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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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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...to 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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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...what to approve. He has not associated himself with any denomination of Protestants; we_knowj;aj;her what he was not than what he was. He was not of the...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 jnind, unless...
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The Study of English

Douglas Gordon Crawford - English language - 1919 - 398 pages
...and feast upon the pulp. Holmes Pick out the topic sentence in each of the following paragraphs. 1. 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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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...many who have not his piety : " 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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Mixed Signals: Chemical Messengers in the New Age

Hugh Crone - Medical - 2001 - 164 pages
...causative agent. CHAPTER 6 RELIGION AND OTHER OPIUMS 'Die Religion... ist das Opium des Volkes.' Karl Marx '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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Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality

Richard H. Schmidt - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 364 pages
...hope of future recompense, and in fear of future punishment. Sermon on Galatians 6:7 Church attendance 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 Gift of Faith: Short Reflections by Thoughtful Anglicans

Christian life - 178 pages
...children beeyng Baptized (if they departe out of thys lyfe in theyr infancie) are undoubtedly saued.61 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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Das eigene und das fremde Leben: biographische Identitätsentwürfe in der ...

Helga Schwalm - Autobiography - 2007 - 422 pages
...Lives, Vol. l.pp. 115/16. 141 "He had determined rather what to condemn than what to approve. [...] we know rather what he was not, than what he was....church of England. //To be of no church is dangerous." Johnson, Lives, Vol. l, p. 155. 142 Johnson, Lives, Vol. l, p. 114. 143 Miltons Reaktion auf den Tod...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 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....To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which tha rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees oul of...
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Selections in Prose and Verse

196 pages
...up from Paradise Regained, 11. 75 and 194. p. 132. His creed, whatever it was. Cf. Johnson's dictum, "We know rather what he was not than what he was....Church of Rome; he was not of the Church of England. " p. 134. Editor of "Blackwood." Professor Wilson ("Christopher North"), a famous contributor to, but...
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