 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 796 pages
...taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintsbip to commit. It im? DECISION Oí CHARACTER. plied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly nnd tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance,... | |
 | 1806 - 854 pages
...Foster's Essays. short life, muÑt apply himself to the woik with such a concentration of bis force«, as to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like ¡inanity. " His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed nit his object, that even at toe greatest... | |
 | John Foster - Autobiography - 1807 - 402 pages
...saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to da, and that he who would do some great thing in this...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His "attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance,... | |
 | 1808 - 614 pages
...inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had ont thin:; to do, and that he who would do some great tiling in this short life, must apply himself to the work...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1808 - 604 pages
...thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, mast apply himself to U)e work with such a concentration of his forces, as,...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance,... | |
 | John Foster - 1813 - 502 pages
...inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thtng in this short life, must apply himself to the work...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance,... | |
 | Miron Winslow - Missions - 1819 - 450 pages
...calmness of an intensity, kept uniform, by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and the character of the individual forbidding it to be...this eternal abjuration of the quiescent feelings. Such was the man whom God raised up to befriend the Indians, and such the glorious success which attended... | |
 | Miron Winslow - Missions - 1819 - 446 pages
...to the work, with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to atnuse themselves, looks like insanity." Brainerd, indeed,...this eternal abjuration of the quiescent feelings. Such was the man whom God raised up to befriend the Indians, and such the glorious success which attended... | |
 | John Styles - Indians - 1821 - 308 pages
...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...ordination, Mr. Brainerd resolved on returning home to his Indians at the Forks of Delaware, but was detained bj sickness till the 19th of June. Every thing excited... | |
 | John Styles - Indians - 1821 - 298 pages
...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...ordination, Mr. Brainerd resolved on. returning home to his Indians at the Forks of Delaware, but was detained by sickness till the 19th of June. Every thing excited... | |
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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... 
