 And we may well give ourselves, in grateful and devout selfsurrender, to that by which we are thus visited. So much is there incalculable, so much that belongs to not ourselves, in conduct ; and the more we attend to conduct, and the more we value it,...  On a Foundation for Religion - Page 27by William Mackintire Salter - 1879 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1871 - 880 pages
...day without spirit and energy for conduct, and another day with them. So that we may most truly sny : "Left to ourselves, we sink and perish; visited, we lift up our heads and live." And we may j well give ourselves, in grateful and devout! self-surrender, to that by which we are |... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1873 - 478 pages
...expression of our own religious convictions,— as in such passages as this : " We may most truly say, ' Left to ourselves, we sink and perish ; visited, we lift up our heads and live." And we may well give ourselves, in grateful and devout self-surrender, to that by which we are thus... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1873 - 712 pages
...control them. We cannot command our ' spirit and energy for conduct.' ' So that we may most truly say, Left to ourselves we sink and perish ; visited, we lift up our heads and live. And we may well give ourselves in grateful and devout self-surrender to that by which we are thus visited.... | |
 | 1873 - 654 pages
...expression of our own religious convictions, — as in such passages as this : " We may most truly say, ' Left to ourselves, we sink and perish ; visited, we lift up our heads and live.' And we may well give ourselves, in grateful and devout self-surrender, to that by which we are thus... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1873 - 454 pages
...without spirit and energy for conduct, and another day with them. So that we may most truly say : ' Left to ourselves, we sink and perish ; visited, we lift up our heads and live.' 1 And we may well give ourselves, in grateful and devout selfsurrender, to that by which we are thus... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 354 pages
...without spirit and energy for conduct, and another day with them. So that we may most truly say : ' Left to ourselves, we sink and perish ; visited, we lift up our heads and live.' ' And we may well give ourselves, in grateful and devout selfsurrender, to that by which we are thus... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 272 pages
...conduct, and another day with them. So that we may most truly say, with the author of the Imitation : ' Left to ourselves, we sink and perish; visited, we lift up our heads and live.'1 And we may well give ourselves, in grateful and devout self-surrender, to that by which we... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 pages
...without spirit and energy for conduct, and another day with them. So that we may most truly say : " Left to ourselves, we sink and perish ; visited, we lift up our heads and live." " And we may well give ourselves, in 30 ' " Relicti mergimur et perimus, visitati vero erigimur et... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 586 pages
...without spirit and energy for conduct, and another day with them. So that we may most truly say : ' Left to ourselves, we sink and perish ; visited, we lift up our heads and live.'1 And we may well give ourselves, in grateful and devout self- surrender, to that by which we... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1906 - 392 pages
...spirit and energy for conduct, and another day with them. So that we may most truly say : " Left tc ourselves, we sink and perish ; visited, we lift up our heads and live."1 And we may well give ourselves, in grateful and devout self-surrender, to that by which we... | |
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