 | 1841 - 986 pages
...in which men are placed to get energy of purpose and character ; a vastly more important endowment than all the learning of all other schools. They are...nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use— by its perils, which demand continual vigilance — and by its tendencies to decay. I believe... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 582 pages
...school, in which men are placed to get energy of purpose and character, a vastly more important endowment than all the learning of all other schools. They are...nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use, by its perils which demand continual vigilance, and by its tendencies to decay. I believe that... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 574 pages
...placed, indeed, under hard masters, physical sufferings and wants, the power of fearful elements, ami the vicissitudes of all human things ; but these stern...nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use, by its perils which demand continual vigilance, and by its tendencies to decay. I believe that... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Labor - 1840 - 68 pages
...stern teachers do a work which no compassionate, indulgent friend could do for us ; and true wibdom will bless Providence for their sharp ministry. I...nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use ; by its perils, which demand continual vigilance, and by its tendencies to decay. I believe that... | |
 | 1840 - 408 pages
...much for the mind by its beauty and order ; but it does more ON THI ELEVATION OF THE WORKINO CLASSES. for our minds by the pains it inflicts, by its obstinate...which nothing but patient toil can overcome, by its rast forces which nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use, by its perils which... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1841 - 586 pages
...in which men arfc placed to get energy of purpose and character-, a vastly more important endowment than all the learning of all other schools. They are...nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use, by its perils which demand continual vigilance, and by its tendencies .to decay. I believe that... | |
 | Ireland - 1841 - 435 pages
...in hard work. The material world does much for the mind by its beauty and order ; but it does more by the pains it inflicts ; by its obstinate resistance,...nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use ; by its perils, which demand continual vigilance ; and by its tendencies to decay. I believe that... | |
 | Ireland - 1841 - 436 pages
...faith in hard work. The material world does much for the mind by its beauty and order; but it does more by the pains it inflicts ; by its obstinate resistance,...toil can overcome; by its vast forces, which nothing out unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use; by its perils, which demand continual vigilance... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1843 - 686 pages
...in. which men are placed to get energy of purpose and character, a vastly more important endowment than all the learning of all other schools. They are...nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use, by its perils which demand continual vigilance, and by its tendencies to decay. I believe that... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1843 - 452 pages
...much for the mind by its beauty and order ; but it does more for our minds by the pains it inflrcts, by its obstinate resistance which nothing but patient...nothing but unremitting skill and effort can turn to our use, by its perils which demand continual vigilance, and by its tendencies to decay. I beh'eve that... | |
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They are placed, indeed, under hard masters, physical sufferings and wants, the power of fearful elements, and the vicissitudes of all human things ; but these stern teachers do a work which no compassionate, indulgent friend could do for us ; and true... 
