Essay on Decision of CharacterChauncy Goodrich, 1830 - 105 pàgines |
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accom accomplish action admiring amidst appear approbation ardor Cæsar calmly cause CHAUNCEY GOODRICH cite George Whitefield commencement Commencement of Action conduct connexion conscience conscious consequences constancy consti constitution contempt conviction courage cumstances dare debility DECISION OF CHARACTER decisive character degree deliberation determination Diet of Worms dissimilar trains effect Egyptian py energy enterprise example execution exertions feeling firm force friends give habit human inflexible instance instantly irresolute ject John Huss judgment kind labor less lute man's manner measure ment mind ness noble object opposite Paradise Lost perceive perhaps perplex placency possessed principles proach prosecuting purpose racter rational reasons redu resolution resolved Richard III Rosicrucians scorn seized shew sion situation solemn mass spect sphere of mortal spirit stancy strength strong character stronger success supreme intelligence thought timation trial utmost vincible virtue wish wonder
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Pàgina 53 - The importance of this object held his faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art had no power. He had no leisure feeling which he could spare to be diverted among the innumerable varieties of the extensive...
Pàgina 82 - Zietern knew him, and instantly fell on his knees to entreat his mercy. The king asked to whom he had been writing ; he said it was a letter to his wife, which he had retained the candle these few minutes beyond the time in order to finish. The king coolly ordered him to rise, and write one line more, which he should dictate. This line was to inform his wife, without any explanation, that by such an hour the next day he should be a dead man. The letter was then sealed, and despatched as it had been...
Pàgina 70 - The tyrant's agents who had them in charge, informed him that this equivalent would be accepted for one of his sons, and for one only, because they should be accountable for the execution of two persons ; he might therefore choose which he would redeem. Anxious to save even one of them thus at the expense of his own life, he yet was...
Pàgina 50 - Reduced to absolute want, he one day went out of the house with an intention to put an end to his life ; but wandering awhile almost unconsciously, he came to the brow of an eminence which overlooked what were lately his estates. Here he sat down, and remained fixed in thought a number of hours, at the end of which he sprang from the ground with a vehement, exulting emotion.
Pàgina 53 - There have not been wanting trivial minds, to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere men of taste ought to be silent respecting such a man as Howard ; he is above their sphere of judgment. The invisible spirits, who fulfil their commission of philanthropy among mortals, do not care about pictures, statues, and sumptuous buildings; and no more did he, when the time in which he must have inspected and admired them, would have been taken from the work to which he had consecrated his life.
Pàgina 56 - I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished.
Pàgina 52 - ... anything like turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less.
Pàgina 52 - The energy of his determination was so great, that if, instead of being habitual, it had been shown only for a short time on particular occasions, it would have appeared a vehement impetuosity; but by being unintermitted, it had an equability of manner which scarcely appeared to exceed the tone of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of any thing like turbulence or agitation.
Pàgina 24 - ... while yet nothing causes a greater expense of feeling. The heart is fretted and exhausted by being subjected to an alternation of contrary excitements, with the ultimate mortifying consciousness of their contributing to no end. The long-wavering deliberation, whether to perform some bold action of difficult virtue, has often cost more to feeling than the action itself, or a series of such actions, would have cost; with the great disadvantage too of not being relieved by any of that invigoration...
Pàgina 18 - A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; since, if he dared to assert that he did, the puny force of some cause, about as powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make a seizure of the...