 | William Ellery Channing - 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...a greatness, which is apt to make a show, or which is most likely to abound in conspicuous station ? The solemn conflicts of reason with passion ; the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1839 - 630 pages
...without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in t-iomiN and mo>t four less utiJer menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering; and Hi this n greatness which U apt to make a show, or which U most likely to abound in conspicuous Nation... | |
 | 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,...on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering;" then was Washington one of the greatest men that ever lived, ^c• . " His \mbition," says Mr. Sparks,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams - 1840 - 286 pages
...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 with...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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 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...a greatness, which is apt to make a show, or which is most likely to abound in conspicuous station ? The solemn conflicts of reason with passion ; the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 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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The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance... 
