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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 Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His Works

Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...the train of external causes, and rather suffered reformation than made it. idler, vol. l. Religion. 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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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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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Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 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 ; he was-not-sf -the Church of .EnglandJL5 To be nf nn Cliyrp.h is flangtuvttis Religion, of which the rewards...
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The Lives of the English Poets: cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...what he was not, than what he was. 'lie was not of the chureh of Rome :' he was not of the church ''" "To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animateoonly by faith and 'Jlope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife: Of Past and Present Times ...

Matthew Forster Conolly - Celebrities - 1866 - 518 pages
...foreseen, that of these very few would, by compulsion, be made to unite themselves with the Establishment. "To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hopc, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1869 - 1208 pages
...man. Dr. Johnson says of him, " He bas 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 Borne, he was not of the Church of England Milton, who appears to have had a full conviction of the...
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Select thoughts on the ministry and the Church, gathered by E. Davies

Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...And dates her letters from thy face, When she doth write. — G. Herbert. CHURCH,— Belonging to no 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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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Librarian, 1604. tentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Life of Addhon. 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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Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations: A Book of Ready Reference for ...

G.W. Carleton & Co - Quotations, English - 1878 - 360 pages
...England hath a Popish liturgy, a Calvin' istic creed, and an Arminian clergy. — Ascribed to PITT. — 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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