 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 504 pages
...commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do ; and that he who would do some great thing in this short life must...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that, even at the greatest distance,... | |
 | Richard Treffry - 1833 - 386 pages
...It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had ONE THING TO DO : and that he, who would do some great thing in this short life, must...concentration of his forces, as to idle spectators looks like insanity.* " Where the results which he desired," says Mr. Calder, " did not attend his... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 522 pages
...implied an inconceivable severity of " conviction, that he had one thing to do ; and that " he, who would do some great thing in this short " life, must...with such "a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spec" tators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks " like insanity. His attention was so strongly... | |
 | John Foster - 1833 - 324 pages
...conviction, that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, mu?t apply himself to the work with such a concentration...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...There is danger of being burnt if you get too near the fire. He, who would achieve any thing great in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks almost... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1834 - 524 pages
...implied an inconceivable severity of " conviction, that he had one thing to do ; and that " he, who would do some great thing in this short " life, must...with such "a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spec" tators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks " like insanity. His attention was so strongly... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1834 - 562 pages
...conviction that he had one thing to do ; and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, musi apply himself to the work, with such a concentration...his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to themselves, looks like insanity." Brainerd, indeed, displayed a memorable example, of this dedication... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1836 - 482 pages
...commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even in the greatest distance,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some one great thing in this short life, must apply himself...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance,... | |
 | American and Foreign Bible Society - 1838 - 1182 pages
...buildings* It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do; and that be who would do some great thing in this short life, must...only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. It was thus ho made the triul, so seldom made, what is the ut* most effect which may be granted to the... | |
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It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only... 
