| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...not see ages ago? And when he announces as a great truth, " well did the wisest of our time write, It is only with Renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin" — has he not repeated, as the result of one more human experience, what Christ taught eighteen hundred... | |
| 1850 - 676 pages
...not see ages ago? And when 'he announces as a great truth, " well did the wisest of our time write, It is only with Renunciation that life, properly, speaking, can be said to begin" — has he not repeated, as the result of one more human experience, what Christ taught eighteen hundred... | |
| 1847 - 876 pages
...introductory to philosophy. It is the experience of the religionist. He pauses at such a quotation as, "It is only with renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin j" or, ;' Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by action;" or, " Do the duty which lies nearest... | |
| 1856 - 386 pages
...of wages a zero, then; thou hast the world under thy feet. 'Well did the wisest of our time write: It is only with renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin. I asked myself, What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting, and fuming,... | |
| John Orr (Unitarian minister.) - 1857 - 516 pages
...wages a Zero, then : thou hast the world under thy feet. Well did the Wisest of our time write : ' It is only with Renunciation, that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.' " Sartor Resartus, p. 207. 3D Self-denial, in the Christian Code, is not an important virtue only ;... | |
| Levi Cooper Lane - 1861 - 538 pages
...who, hour after hour, hang upon the very verge of starvation. How true are the words of Goethe, that " It is only with Renunciation, that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.' ' When a man steps out of himself, forgets himself for some one else ; denies himself a comfort that... | |
| David James Vaughan - 1865 - 392 pages
...utilitarian morality." — JS Mill's " Utilitarianism," pp. 24, 25. 8 "Well did the wisest of our time write: 'It is only with renunciation, that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin ?' " " There is in man a Higher than love of happiness : he can do without happiness, and instead thereof... | |
| James Moorhouse (bp. of Manchester.) - 1866 - 236 pages
...referring to what he very correctly calls the "passive half" of man's duty, Thomas Carlyle exclaims8, "It is only with renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin,... thankfully bear then what yet remains (of afflictions), thou hadst need of them, the self in thee needed... | |
| 1869 - 640 pages
...always there is a black spot in our sunshine, it is even the shadow of ourselves:' he concludes, ' It is only with Renunciation that life, properly speaking, can be said to begin, close thy By ron, openthy Goethe(!)' — — then in extasy he cries, ' I see a glimpse of it ! there... | |
| Annie Keary - 1869 - 376 pages
...OLDBUBY. J OLDBUEY. BY ANNIE KEAEY, AUTHOR OF "JANET'S HOME." " Well did the Wisest of OUT time write, * It is only with Renunciation that Life, properly speaking, can be said to begin.' " — SAHTOR RESARTUS. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. Bonbon : MACMILLAN AND 00. 1869. [The Right of Translation... | |
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