Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 103
... hold by himself ; add observation to observation , patient of neglect , patient of re- proach , and bide his own time , - happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly . Success treads on every ...
... hold by himself ; add observation to observation , patient of neglect , patient of re- proach , and bide his own time , - happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly . Success treads on every ...
Page 110
... hold life , are the topics of the time . It is a great stride . It is a sign , is it not ? of new vigor when the extremities are made active , when cur- rents of warm life run into the hands and the feet . I ask not for the great , the ...
... hold life , are the topics of the time . It is a great stride . It is a sign , is it not ? of new vigor when the extremities are made active , when cur- rents of warm life run into the hands and the feet . I ask not for the great , the ...
Page 140
... hold the public worship had on men is gone , or going . It has lost its grasp on the affection of the good and the fear of the bad . In the country , neighborhoods , half parishes are signing off , to use the local term . It is already ...
... hold the public worship had on men is gone , or going . It has lost its grasp on the affection of the good and the fear of the bad . In the country , neighborhoods , half parishes are signing off , to use the local term . It is already ...
Page 141
... holds the best there is now only a hope and a waiting . What was once a mere circumstance , that the best and the worst men in the parish , the poor and the rich , the learned and the ignorant , young and old , should meet one day as ...
... holds the best there is now only a hope and a waiting . What was once a mere circumstance , that the best and the worst men in the parish , the poor and the rich , the learned and the ignorant , young and old , should meet one day as ...
Page 143
... hold up to your emulation Wes- leys and Oberlins , Saints and Prophets . Thank God for these good men , but say , ' I also am a man . ' Imitation cannot go above its model . The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity . The inven ...
... hold up to your emulation Wes- leys and Oberlins , Saints and Prophets . Thank God for these good men , but say , ' I also am a man . ' Imitation cannot go above its model . The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity . The inven ...
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