 | Robert Hall - 1849 - 504 pages
...commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that ho 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 tenaeionsly fixed on his object, that, even at the greatest distance,... | |
 | John Angell James - 1849 - 322 pages
...buildings. 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 to amuse themselves,... | |
 | John Field - 1850 - 534 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,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...or mental, must have been eternal, if anything exist. — Dr. Tlws. Brown. PERSEVEBANCE. — He who would do some great thing in this short life must...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. — John Foster. BAD LAWS. — How ineffectual are all our efforts to preserve the morals of a people,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...or mental, must have been eternal, if anything exist. — Dr. Thos. Brovm. PEBSEVERANCE. — He who would do some great thing in this short life must...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. — John Pouter. BAD LAWS. — How ineffectual are all our efforts to preserve the morals of a people,... | |
 | George Combe - 1850 - 452 pages
...had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himseli to the work with such a concentration of his forces,...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 Institute of Instruction - 1850 - 256 pages
...pursuit 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...the work with such a concentration of his forces, as shall seem to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, like insanity." • In clearness... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...or mental, must have been eternal, if anything exist. — Dr. Thm. /from. PKKSKVKRAKCK. — He who would do some great thing in this short life must...the work with such a concentration of his forces, пч to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. — Joint Fouler. BAD... | |
 | 1850 - 546 pages
...: — " He had 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 with such a concentration of his forces as to idle spectators looks like insanity." A very narrow-minded... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1851 - 618 pages
...himself wholly to his work. " He who would do some great thing in this short life," writes Mr. Foster, "must apply himself to the work with such a concentration...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Mr. Hewitson lived for Christ and his cause. A few weeks before his death, when his soul was exercised... | |
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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... 
