 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...in our power to change ; but it is in our power to assume such a greatness of mind as 3 becomes wise and virtuous men ; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourselves to the order of Nature, who governs her great kingdom , the world, by continual mutations.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...in our power to change ; but it is in our power to assume such a greatness of mind as becomes wise and virtuous men, as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourselves to the order of Nature, who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations.... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1839 - 532 pages
...discovered the faults of our neighbors. " Let us then assume such a greatness of mind as becomes wise and virtuous men ; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourselves to the order of nature who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations."... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 526 pages
...not in our power to change; but it is in our power to assume such a greatness of mind as becomes wise and virtuous men; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourselves to the order of nature, who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations.... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 520 pages
...not in our power to change; but it is in our power to assume such a greatness of mind as becomes wise and virtuous men; as may enable us to encounter the accidents of life with fortitude, and to conform ourselves to the order of nature, who governs her great kingdom, the world, by continual mutations.... | |
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... and dangers of the air and the earth, there are perils by water and perils by fire. This... 
