Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Make thy claim of wages a zero, then hast thou 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. "
The Permanent Elements of Religion: Eight Lectures Preached Before the ... - Page 350
by William Boyd Carpenter - 1889 - 423 pages
Full view - About this book

New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 8

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...
Full view - About this book

The New Englander, Volume 8

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...
Full view - About this book

Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and ..., Volumes 30-31

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...
Full view - About this book

Seed-grain for Thought and Discussion, Volume 1

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,...
Full view - About this book

Theism, a treatise on God, providence and immortality

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 ;...
Full view - About this book

Collection of publications of L.C. Lane . c. 2

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...
Full view - About this book

Christian evidences and the Bible. Sermons, with a preface and notes

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...
Full view - About this book

Our lord Jesus Christ the subject of growth in wisdom. Hulsean lects., 1865 ...

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...
Full view - About this book

The Christian treasury (and missionary review)., Volume 25, Issue 1869

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...
Full view - About this book

Oldbury, Volume 3

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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF