 To clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, and to comfort the afflicted, can be duties to those only who are placed where the account of Providence with Vice and Virtue is kept open, and the mite of human benevolence may be accepted for either ; as the...  The British Essayists;: Adventurer - Page 260by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | 1785 - 772 pages
...the afflift•* ed, can be duties to thole only who " are placed where the account of Pro" ridence witH vice and virtue is kept " open, and the mite of human henevo" If nee may be accepted for either; as " the balance is deferred till hereafter, " and will... | |
 | 1793 - 310 pages
...others to be dependent upon him. Every individual is. here a kind of feparate fyftem : among thefe there ca.n be neither pity nor relief, neither bounty...gratitude. To clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, and to com^ fort the afljicted, can be duties to thofe only, who are placed where the account of Providence... | |
 | 1803 - 240 pages
...the exercise of social virtue presupposes the happiness of others to be dependent upon him. livery individual is here a kind of separate system : among...gratitude. To clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, and lo comfort the affticted, can be duties to those only, who are placed where the account of Providence... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 650 pages
...and the exercise of social virtue presupposes the happiness of others to be dependant upon him. Every individual is here a kind of separate system : among...the mite of human benevolence may be accepted for either; as the balance is deferred till hereafter, and will at last be stated with the utmost precision... | |
 | 1823 - 324 pages
...and the exercise of social virtue presupposes the happiness of others to be dependent upon him. Every individual is here a kind of separate system : among...the mite of human benevolence may be accepted for either ; as the balance is deferred till hereafter, and will at last be stated with the utmost precision... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 686 pages
...and the exercise of social virtue presupposes the happiness of others to be dependent upon him. Every individual is here a kind of separate system : among...the mite of human benevolence may be accepted for either ; as the balance is deferred till hereafter, and will at last be stated with the utmost precision... | |
 | 1823 - 304 pages
...and the exercise of social virtue presupposes the happiness of others to be dependent upon him. Every individual is here a kind of separate system : among...the mite of human benevolence may be accepted for either; as the balance is deferred till hereafter, and will at last be stated with the utmost precision... | |
 | Joseph Hassell - 1866 - 478 pages
...was large enough to feel for all — whether friend or foe, heathen or Christian, orthodox or Arian. To clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, and to comfort the distressed, he travelled over frozen rivers, exposed himself to many dangers, and counted not his life... | |
 | Chalmers Izett Paton - 1872 - 464 pages
...good to all ; to relieve the necessitous and the deserving, whether they be of Jerusalem or Samaria; to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, and to comfort the distressed, always, however, giving a preference to those of its own household — those who, in the... | |
 | Joseph Hassell - 1872 - 600 pages
...was large enough to feel for all — whether friend or foe, heathen or Christian, orthodox or Arian. To clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, and to comfort the distressed, he travelled over frozen rivers, exposed himself to many dangers, and counted not his life... | |
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