 | Samuel Osgood - 1842 - 408 pages
...be required to teach, even the religious world, so called, the full meaning of the term CHRISTIAN 1 A true life must be simple in all its elements. Animated...divine and unselfish idea. Under the guidance of such a sentiment, virtue is not an effort, but a law of nature, like gravitation. It is vice alone that seems... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - 1845 - 292 pages
...and ennobling impulse, all inferior aspirations find their proper places in harmonious subserivence. Simplicity in taste, in appetite, in habits of life,...divine and unselfish idea. Under the guidance of such a sentiment, virtue is not an effort, but a law of nature, like gravitation. It is vice alone that seems... | |
 | William Russell, John Goldsbury - 1845 - 300 pages
...God who fixed the home Of freedom in the mountains ! EXERCISE CXXXIH. A TRUE LIFE. — H. Oreeley. A true life must be simple in all its elements. Animated by one grand and ennobling impulse, all inferior aspirations find their proper places in harmonious subservience. Simplicity in taste, in appetite,... | |
 | Frederick A. Moore - 1850 - 330 pages
...religious world, so called, the full meaning of the term CHRISTIAN ? A true life must be simple in nil its elements. Animated by one grand and ennobling...divine and unselfish idea. Under the guidance of such a sentiment, virtue is not an effort, but a law of nature, like gravitation. It is vice alone that seems... | |
 | 1854 - 338 pages
...with the humblest as the highest ? How many centuries more will be required THE IDEAL OF A TRUE LIFE. to teach even the religious world, so called, the...of the predominance of a divine and unselfish idea. Tinder the guidance of such a sentiment, virtue is not an effort, but a law of nature, like gravitation.... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 pages
...other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind S. Smiles, England. 18166O. A True Life. A true life must be simple in all its elements. Animated...a corresponding indifference to worldly honors and aggrandisement, is the natural result of the predominance of a divine and unselfish idea. Under the... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 pages
...perhaps, more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind 6O. A True Life. A true life must be simple in all its elements. Animated...a corresponding indifference to worldly honors and aggrandisement, is the natural result of the predominance of a divine and unselfish idea. Under the... | |
 | Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - 1910 - 298 pages
...of the advancing billow, how gentle is the reproof, how charitable the judgment, of the world ! 6. A true life must be simple in all its elements. Animated...divine and unselfish idea. Under the guidance of such a sentiment, virtue is not an effort, but a law of nature, like gravitation. It is vice alone that seems... | |
 | 1873 - 342 pages
...of the advancing billow, how gentle is the reproof, how charitable the judgment, of the world ! 6. A true life must be simple in all its elements. Animated...divine and unselfish idea. Under the guidance of such a sentiment, virtue is not an effort, but a law of nature, like gravitation. It is vice alone that seems... | |
 | 1866 - 324 pages
...daintily, cautiously and inoffensively through the midst of drunkard-making and national faith-breaking ? A true life must be simple in all its elements. Animated...honors and aggrandizement, is the natural result of the predominence of a divine and unselfish idea. Under the guidance of such a sentiment, virtue is not... | |
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A true life must be simple in all its elements. Animated by one grand and ennobling impulse, all lesser aspirations find their proper places in harmonious subservience. Simplicity in taste, in appetite, in habits of life, with a corresponding indifference... 