The Christian Hero: An Argument Proving That No Principles but Those of Religion Are Sufficient to Make a Great Man (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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These ills are supported by the arbitrary sway of legislative ridicule, while, by I know not what pedantry of good breeding, conversation is confined to indifferent, low, or perhaps vicious subjects; and all that is serious, good or great, almost banished the world: for in imitation of those we have mentioned, there daily arise so many pre tenders to do mischief, that what seemed at first but a conspiracy, is now a general insurrection against virtue; and when they, who really have wit, lead the way, it is hardly to be prevented, but that they must be followed by a crowd, who would be such, and make what shift they can to ap pear so, by helping one defect with another, and supplying want of wit with want of1ix grace, and want of reputation with want of shame.

Thus are men hurried away in the pro secution of mean and sensual desires, and instead of employing their passions in the service of life, they spend their life in the Service of their passions; yet, though it is a truth very little received, that virtue is its own reward, it is surely an undeniable one, that vice is its own punishment; for when we have given our appetites a loose rein, We are immediately precipitated by them into unbounded and endless wishes, while we repine at our fortune, if its narrowness curbs them, though the gratification of them were a kindness, like the indulgence of a man's thirst in a dropsy; but this dis temper of mind is never to be remedied, till men will more unreservedly attempt the work, and will resolve to value themselves, rather upon a strong reason to allay their passions, than a fine imagination to raise them.

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