 | S. B - 1855 - 114 pages
...with the conviction that tie work he engaged in was " the one thing for him to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life must...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." The remark of Foster, respecting Whitfield, may justly be applied to the late Mr. Gunn. " The great... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 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...his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amusa themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object,... | |
 | John Baillie - 1856 - 266 pages
...Characteristics — Conversation " HE who would do some great thing in this short life," writes Foster, "must apply himself to the work with such a concentration...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Above and beyond all other men is he who " concentrates his forces " on the work of winning souls pronounced... | |
 | John Baillie - 1856 - 260 pages
...Characteristics— Conversation " HE who would do some great thing in this short life," writes Foster, " must apply himself to the work with such a concentration...spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.1' Above and beyond all other men is he who " concentrates his forces " on the work of winning... | |
 | 1857 - 396 pages
...persistent, untamable efficacy of soul — with the energy of Howard ; he had one thing to do. He who would do some great thing in this short life, must...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. Qftmational ASHLAND. — At the recent Exhibition of this Union School, Mr. SM Barber, Superintendent,... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1858 - 484 pages
...work ere he went to rest. " He who would do some great thing in this short life," said John Foster, " must apply himself to the work with such a concentration...live 'only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Thus lived and laboured an earnest artisan, a blessing to his generation, and the means of carrying... | |
 | 1858 - 348 pages
...commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to do, and thai he who would do some great thing in this short life, must...apply himself to the work with such a concentration of hia forces, as, to idle spectators who .live only to amuso themselves, looks like insanity. " His attention... | |
 | Life, Clergyman's daughter - 1859 - 190 pages
...HYMNS FROM THE LAND OF LUTHER. " HE that would do some great thing in this short life," says Foster, " must apply himself to the work with such a concentration...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." How much more, when the work in which we are engaged concerns the well-being of our souls for eternity!... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...them never occurs, and our plans are swept away like chaff before the wind. " He," says Foster, "who would do some great thing in this short life, must...live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." "Awake, awake !" says GOD ; " put on thy strength." In the Leisure Hour we have an interesting account... | |
 | 1861 - 44 pages
...* * There was 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. * * * "As his method referred every thing he did and thought to the same end, and his exertion did... | |
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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... 
