 It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Pàgina 554editat per - 1806Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Styles - 1821 - 308 pàgines
...individual forbidding it to be less." His conduct "implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that ht had one thing to do; and that he who would do some...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." .Brainerd, indeed, "displayed a memorable example of this dedication of his whole being to his office,... | |
 | John Styles - 1821 - 298 pàgines
...forbidding it to be less." His conduct "implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he hud one thing to do; and that he who would do some great...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Brainerd, indeed, "displayed a memorable example of this dedication of his whole being to his office,... | |
 | James Baldwin Brown - 1823 - 700 pàgines
...ruins. Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit. It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had...looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance, as the Egyptian Pyramids to... | |
 | Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 586 pàgines
...Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit; — it implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity*. * Foster's Essays, vol. 1, pp. 158, 159. 524 The good which Howard individually performed was widely... | |
 | 1825 - 864 pàgines
...ruins. Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had...looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance, as the Egyptian pyramids to... | |
 | 1825 - 90 pàgines
...consciousness of duty, as to refus« himself time for surveying the magnificence of its ruins. This implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had...apply himself to the work with such a concentration of hif forces, as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse thcmselvei, looks like insanity. His attention... | |
 | 1825 - 498 pàgines
...consciousness of duty, as to refuse himself time for surveying the magnificence of its ruins. This implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had...short life, must apply himself to the work with such a con. 59 in the cultivation of the young heart; and if judiciously managed, forms a subject of the highest... | |
 | John Foster - 1826 - 290 pàgines
...common saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one tiling to do, and that he who would do some great thing in...looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance, as the Egyptian pyramids to... | |
 | 1826 - 478 pàgines
...fobidding it to be more and the character of the individual forbidding it to be less. His conduct implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had...apply himself to the work with such a concentration of forces as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. — History of... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1827 - 276 pàgines
...ruins. Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saints-hip to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had...looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that, even at the greatest distance, as the Egyptian pyramids... | |
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