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 | William Ellery Channing - Self-culture - 1838 - 90 pages
...measures moral greatness, that highest of human endowments, that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with...storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God is most unfaltering ; and is this a greatness, which is... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1839 - 1066 pages
...measures moral greatness, that highest of human endowments, that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with...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... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...Coligny always wore his in liis beard. — Inn's Outlines of English History. Tu EGK LATEST MA >• . — The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptation from within and from without; who bears the heavic.-t burdens cheerfully ; who is calmest... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...measures moral greatness, that 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 temptati«ns from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - Christian life - 1840 - 282 pages
...must judge of this from another standard than that generally used by mankind. It has been well said, that " the greatest man is he who chooses the right...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... | |
 | 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,...storms, and most fearless under menace and frowns ; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering;" then was Washington one of the... | |
 | 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 under menace and frowns ; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering." * Infidelity can show no such greatness... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1841 - 424 pages
...moral greatness, that highest of jfa^ ' human endowments, that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with...storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering ; and is this a greatness, which is... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1841 - 424 pages
...measures moral greatness, that highest of human endowments, that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with...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
...moral goodness, — that highest of human endowments, — that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. The greatest man is he who chooses ' the Right' with...who resists the sorest temptations from within and from without ; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully ; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God,... | |
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