| Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action — and to that cultivation of the mild virtues, tterfilled anything ; but we are saying, that, upon the whole, it is the best method of employing time ; and that... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action ; and to that cultivation of the mild virtues, which those who cultivate the stern and magnanimous...we would not hazard such a proposition respecting anything; but we are saying that upon the whole, it is the best method of employing time, and that... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1880 - 328 pages
...their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action — and to that cultivation of the mild virtues, which those who cultivate the stern and magnanimous...We would not hazard such a proposition respecting anything ; but we are saying, that, upon the whole, it is the best method of employing time ; and that... | |
| American literature - 1855 - 636 pages
...their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action — and to that cultivation of the mild virtues, which those who cultivate the stern and magnanimous virtues expect at their hands." PRINCIPLES AND PASSIONS. I don't mean to say that principle is not a finer thing than passion ; but... | |
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