Fervour

This is typical Socialist Utopianism that infects democracies with a Secular Religious Fervour.

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_Hopes_ languish, and their _Fervour_ decays; that in such cold seasons as these, their Spirits move but stiffly about, and seldom rise into any earnest petitions for Grace, but sink under the burden of _Prayer_, or steal away to some Trifle, or other for a little

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

Fervour and extravagance in expressions will please.

Selected English Letters Various 1913

Though thou shouldst find thy self lukewarm, with little Fervour in thee, yet trusting in the

The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland. 1907

Fervour; but this sweetness and sensible delight is scarce done, but presently, upon the overtaking of a Storm of Trouble, Temptation and Dryness

The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland. 1907

Fervour is akin to fever, and it frequently happens that the one passes into the other.

Brooks by the Traveller's Way 1864-1923 1902

Fervour and sincerity of devotion, passionate intensity of faith in the Lord and Master under Whose name he served, has never received more beautiful expression than in this and the following poem, which their martyr -- author probably thought out or (if the thirteen torturings of the persecutors left him the power), wrote down during his imprisonment.

The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

In this map one sees the 'States of Charity,' the 'Province of Fervour,' the 'Empire of Self-Contempt,' and other countries belonging to a vast continent, of which the centre is the 'Kingdom of the Love of God,' connected to a smaller continent -- that of the world -- by a narrow neck of land called the 'Isthmus of Charity.'

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

Fervour of a Christian spirit is all right when it is yoked to Christian work, and made to draw what else is a heavy chariot.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868

It churns my Old Heart now to think of that Beautiful Girl, sitting beside me in my dank Prison Room, the tears streaming from her mild eyes, calling me by Endearing names, and ever and anon taking my hand in hers, and sinking on her knees to the sodden floor (with no thought of soiling her kirtle), while with profound Fervour she prayed for the conversion of errant Me.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861