 ... from many mistakes, and a skill had been laboriously acquired in the use of many powers. And the being I looked upon had just compassed that most useful, most practical of all knowledge,— how to live and to act well and wisely. Yet I have seen such...  Religious Consolation - Page 144by Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1837 - 227 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tracts - 1847 - 402 pages
...easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavour ; when wisdom had been learnt from many mistakes, and a skill had been laboriously...faculties trained, only to be thrown into utter disuse ? Was this instrument, — the intelligent soul, the noblest in the universe, — was it so laboriously... | |
 | Orville Dewey - Bible - 1835 - 310 pages
...easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavour ; when wisdom had been learnt from many mistakes, and a skill had been laboriously...faculties trained, only to be thrown into utter disuse ? Was this instrument — the intelligent soul, the noblest in the universe — was it so laboriously... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1839 - 226 pages
...every power, in the earthly perfection of every faculty ; when many temptations had been overeome, and many hard lessons had been learned ; when many...compassed that most useful, most practical of all knowledge—how to live, and to act well and wisely ; yet I have seen such a one die! Was all this... | |
 | Orville Dewey - Sermons, American - 1838 - 312 pages
...virtue easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavour; when wisdom had been learnt from many mistakes, and a skill had been laboriously...faculties trained, only to be thrown into utter disuse ? Was this instrument—the intelligent soul, the noblest in the universe—was it so laboriously fashioned,... | |
 | Orville Dewey - Sermons, American - 1838 - 312 pages
...easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavour ;. when wisdom had been learnt from many mistakes, and a skill had been laboriously...die ! Was all this treasure gained, only to be lost I Were all these faculties trained, only to be thrown into utter disuse ? Was this instrument — the... | |
 | Orville Dewey - Theology - 1844 - 904 pages
...easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavour ; when wisdom had been learnt from many mistakes, and a skill had been laboriously...faculties trained only to be thrown into utter disuse? Was this instrument — the intelligent soul, the noblest in the universe — was it so laboriously... | |
 | Orville Dewey - Religion - 1847 - 408 pages
...easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavour ; when wisdom had been learnt from many mistakes, and a skill had been laboriously...faculties trained, only to be thrown into utter disuse? Was this instrument, the intelligent soul, the noblest in the universe ; was it so laboriously fashioned,... | |
 | Orville Dewey - Religion - 1847 - 410 pages
...virtue easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavour; when wisdom had been learnt from many mistakes, and a skill had been laboriously...faculties trained, only to be thrown into utter disuse? Was this instrument, the intelligent soul, the noblest in the universe ; was it so laboriously fashioned,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...easy, and had given a facility to action, and a success to endeavour ; when wisdom had been learnt from many mistakes, and a skill had been laboriously...well and wisely ; yet I have seen such an one die ! most varied and expensive apparatus, that, on the very moment of being finished, it should be castaway... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...; when many experiments had made virtue easy, and Bad given a facility to action, and a success ,.> endeavor , when wisdom had been learned from many...and to act well and wisely ; yet I have seen such a one die ! Was all this treasure gained only to be lost ? Were all these faculties trained only to... | |
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