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" Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. Let not thy life be spent in inaction. "
A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections ... - Page 292
by Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794
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Works, Volume 8

William Robertson - 1825 - 466 pages
...passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event'. Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event....application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or in evil; for such an equality...
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The Works of Wm. Robertson, D.D.: History of America, books IX-X. An ...

William Robertson - 1825 - 464 pages
...passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event'. Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event....application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or in evil; for such an equality...
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The History of Scotland, and an Historical Disquisition Concerning Ancient India

William Robertson - 1828 - 746 pages
...passions, performed! with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event1. Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope <>1 reward. Let not thy life be spent in inaction. Depend upon application, perform thy duty, abandon...
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The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI ...

William Robertson - 1835 - 626 pages
...passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event. i Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event....application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or in evil ; for such an equality...
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An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients Had ...

William Robertson - 1835 - 630 pages
...passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event.} Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event....application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or in evil ; for such an equality...
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The History of Scotland and an Historical Disquisition Concerning Ancient India

William Robertson - 1835 - 750 pages
...Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope ot reward. Let not thy life be spent in inaction. Depend upon application, perform thv duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in...
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The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI ...

William Robertson - 1844 - 620 pages
...passions, performeth with his active faculties all the functions of life, unconcerned about the event.} Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event....application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or in evil ; for such an equality...
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The Bhagavat-geeta, Or, Dialogues of Krishna and Arjoon: In Eighteen ...

John Garrett - 1846 - 270 pages
...simple expression of indifference to the consequences of action is contained in the following verses. " Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event....one whose motive for action is the hope of reward, have no inordinate desire after inaction. (11.47,48.) " In speculative devotion perform actions, "...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1848 - 544 pages
...happiness ; but of the two the practice of works is to be distinguished above the desertion." Ib. p. 40. " Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event....application, perform thy duty, abandon all thought of the consequence, and make the event equal, whether it terminate in good or evil." Ib. p. 131. " The duties...
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The Bhagavat-Geeta, Or, Dialogues of Krishna and Arjoon in Eighteen Lectures ...

J. Garrett - 1849 - 270 pages
...simple expression of indifference to the consequences of action is contained in the following verses. " Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event....one whose motive for action is the hope of reward, have no inordinate desire after inaction. (II. 47, 48.) " In speculative devotion perform actions,...
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