 The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless, under menace and frowns, whose...  Bizarre: For Fireside and Wayside - Page 1771858Full view - About this book
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1839 - 1066 pages
...that highest of human endowments, that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution,...who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under тепасз and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering ; and is this... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptati«ns from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens...cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless uiiJer menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering; and is this... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 630 pages
...without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in t-iomiN and mo>t four less utiJer menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering; and Hi this n greatness which U apt to make a show, or which U most likely to abound in conspicuous Nation... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...bears the heavic.-t burdens cheerfully ; who is calmest in storms, and most tearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. — Channing. LONDON: W. BRITTAIN, PATERNOSTER ROrT. Edinburgh : JOHN MBNZIES. Dublin : CUIIKY & Co.... | |
 | Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 pages
...chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptation from within and from without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully,...on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering;" then was Washington one of the greatest men that ever lived, ^c• . " His \mbition," says Mr. Sparks,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - Christian life - 1840 - 286 pages
...resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burden cheerfully, who is calmest in storms, and most fearless...on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering." * Infidelity can show no such greatness as * Channing. this ; but Christianity abounds with it ; and... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - Christian life - 1840 - 282 pages
...standard than that generally used by mankind. It has been well said, that " the greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution,...temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burden cheerfully, who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menace and frowns ; whose reliance... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1841 - 424 pages
...that highest of human endowments, that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution,...calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and froVns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering ; and is this a greatness,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 pages
...highest of human endowments, — that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. The greatest man is he who chooses ' the Right' with invincible resolution...who resists the sorest temptations from within and from without ; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully ; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God,... | |
 | Evangelicalism - 1842 - 368 pages
...that they have lost such an ornament of grace, and such an example of piety. If the great man be he who chooses the right with invincible resolution ;...burdens cheerfully ; who is calmest in storms ; and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is the most unfaltering, then I consider that Joseph... | |
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