| Stephen Frederick Williams - 1862 - 328 páginas
...outbreathing of the soul for knowledge. What says Foster ? " He that would accomplish anything great in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such...forces, as to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Murray persevered always enthusiastically. Nothing could quench his... | |
| William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 páginas
...would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a consecration of his forces, as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his objeet,... | |
| 982 páginas
...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...forces, as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Decision of character is no less important in the private walks and... | |
| william reed - 1864 - 836 páginas
...learnt the lesson, 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...forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." His determination, so frequently expressed, to labour for the salvation... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 páginas
...severity of conviction,1 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...forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object,... | |
| John Berrien Lindsley - 1874 - 66 páginas
...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...forces as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object... | |
| Margaret Maria Gordon - 1874 - 352 páginas
...x.. 20; Acts xxvi. 24; 1 Cor. xiv. 23.) Mr. Foster says, " He that would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such...forces as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks u like insanity." -f- This is strangely enough more especially the case when it has... | |
| James A. R. Dickson - 1875 - 72 páginas
...needed to do much in this godlike service. Said John Foster : " He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such...concentration of his forces as to idle spectators, who only live to amuse themselves, must look like insanity." Out of a loving heart speak of the unsearchable... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...Letter I., 1796. He who would do some great thing in (his short life must apply himself to the work w^th such a concentration of his forces as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. JOHN FOSTER : On Decision of Character. Is there one whom difficulties... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 páginas
...severity of conviction that he had one thin9 to do, and that be who would do some great thing in this Q themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object... | |
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