 Give me neither poverty nor riches " was the prayer of Agur, and with good reason. If there is any improvement in modern theology, it is in getting out of the region of pure abstractions and taking these every-day working forces into account.  The Foundations of personality - Page 24by Abraham Myerson - 1921 - 406 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Bushnell - 1858 - 884 pages
...nothing, as in some idiots; and, from this zero, the scale mounts upward, by slight gradations. Education is only second to nature. Imagine all the infants...this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places 1 Condition does less, but " Give me neither poverty nor riches " was the prayer of Agur, and with... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1861 - 536 pages
...nothing, as in some idiots; arid, from this zero, the scale mounts upward, by slight gradations. Education is only second to nature. Imagine all the infants...this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places ! Condition does less, but " Give me neither poverty nor riches" was the prayer of Agur, and with good... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 pages
...nothing, as in some idiots ; and from this zero the scale mounts upwards, by slight gradations. Education is only second to nature. Imagine all the infants...this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places ! Condition does less, but " Give me neither poverty nor riches " was the prayer of Agur, and with... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1877 - 552 pages
...as in some idiots; arid, from this zero, the sca.le mounts upward, by slight gradations. Education is only second to nature. Imagine all the infants born this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to char.ge places I Condition does less, but " Give me neither poverty nor riches" was the prayer of Agur,... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1878 - 144 pages
...character; but he is more or less modified by the various forces that play upon him from without. " Imagine all the infants born this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places!" says the Autocrat of the Breakfast -Table.* To what extent man's will makes him superior to circumstances,... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1880 - 392 pages
...nothing, as in some idiots ; and, from this zero, the scale mounts upward, by slight gradations. Education is only second to nature. Imagine all the infants...this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places ! Condition does less, but " give me neither poverty nor riches" was the prayer of Agur, and with good... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 pages
...nothing, as in some idiots ; and from this zero the scale mounts upwards, by slight gradations. Education is only second to nature. Imagine all the infants...this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places ! Condition does less, but " Give me neither poverty nor riches " was the prayer of Agur, and with... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 406 pages
...this zero the scale mounts upwards by slight gradations. Education is only second to natureImagine all the infants born this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places ! Condition does less, but " Give me neither poverty nor riches" was the prayer of Agur, and with good... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 354 pages
...nothing, as in some idiots ; and from this zero the scale mounts upwards by slight gradations. , Education is only second to nature. Imagine all the infants...this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places ! Condition does less, but " Give me neither poverty nor riches " was the prayer of Agur, and with... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 pages
...nothing, as in some idiots ; and from this zero the scale mounts upwards by slight gradations. Education is only second to nature. Imagine all the infants...this year in Boston and Timbuctoo to change places ! Condition does less, but " Give me neither poverty nor riches " was the prayer of Agur, and with... | |
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