 | Robert Sears - United States - 1850 - 448 pages
...passage, from impending servitude to acknowledged independence. But faith has its limits as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither...the very verge of both, another step would ruin you for ever. To be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard upon you, is more than weakness ; but... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...cowardice or plunging into credulity. This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation ; hurried to the verge of both, another step would ruin you forever....but to look up for kinder usage, without one manly effort of your own, would fix your character, and show the world how richly you deserved the chains... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...of their country, already weakened by circumstances. " Faith," he says, " has its limits as well as ender hearts to pray for the shades of death. See...adieu to all felicity thie side the grave I " Now all verge of both, another step would ruin you forever. To be tame and unprovoked, when injuries press... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 946 pages
...cowardice or plunging into credulity. This, my friends, I conceive to be your situation ; hurried to the verge of both, another step would ruin you forever. To be tame and unprovoked, wlien injuries press hard upon you, is more than weakness ; but to look up for kinder usage, without... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1853 - 466 pages
...acknowledged independence. Bi'l faith has its limits as well as temper, and there are points beyord which neither can be stretched, without sinking into...cowardice, or plunging into credulity — This, my iriends, I conceive to be your situation — hurried to the very verge of both, another step would... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 664 pages
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 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 586 pages
...passage from impending servitude to acknowledged independence. " But faith has its limits as well as temper ; and there are points, beyond which neither...the very verge of both, another step would ruin you for ever. To be tame and unprovoked, when injuries press hard upon you, is more than weakness ; but... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...independence. Brt faith has its limits as well as temper, and there are points beyond which neither aan be stretched, without sinking into cowardice, or plunging...the very verge of both, another step would ruin you for ever — to be tame and unprovoked when injuries press hard upon you, is more than weakness ; but... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 pages
...of government to the wants and rights of the army, saying that "faith has its limits as well as its temper, and there are points beyond which neither...sinking into cowardice or plunging into credulity," takes a survey of the past, and in a series of startling questions asks how their services have been... | |
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But faith has its limits as well as temper; and there are points, beyond which neither can be stretched without sinking into cowardice or plunging into credulity. 
