No character, however harmoniously framed and gloriously gifted, can be complete without this abiding principle : it is the cement which binds the whole moral edifice together, without which all power, goodness, intellect, truth, happiness, love itself,... Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Page 1901845Full view - About this book
| 1839 - 272 pages
...brevity of life, and the vanity of all sublunary enjoyments. DUTY is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong,...existence crumbles away from under us, and leaves us at last sitting in the midst of a ruin, — astonished at our own desolation. MBS. JAMESON. LONDON : JOHN... | |
| 1839 - 532 pages
...brevity of life, and the vanity of all sublunary enjoyments. DUTY is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong,...have no permanence ; but all the fabric of existence crum bles away from under us, and leaves us at last sitting in th« midst of a ruin, — astonished... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 408 pages
...expression, and sufficiency proves that Casdmon was a true poet. DUTY. DUTY is far more than love. It is 'ne upholding law through which the weakest become strong,...framed and gloriously gifted, can be complete without thisahidioj principle: it is the cement which binds til! whole moral edifice together, without whic"... | |
| 1857 - 498 pages
...Lyceum of Natural History of New York.— Brewster'i Journal DUTY. DUTY is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong, without which all strength is as unstable as water. No character, however harmoniously flamed and gloriously gifted, can be complete... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...the most useful part of philosophy. WlMttly. DUTY— Mature of. Duty is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong,...however harmoniously framed and gloriously gifted, can bo complete without this abiding principle : it is the cement which binds the whole moral edifice together,... | |
| 1863 - 910 pages
...— John xii. 6. LEVI. — Mark ix. 9 ; Luke v. 27. DUTY. — Duty is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong,...water. No character, however harmoniously framed and glorious] v gifted, can be complete without this abiding principle: it is the cement which binds the... | |
| Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pages
...the cement which binds the whole moral .2 edifice together ; without which, all power, goodness, 3.> intellect, truth, happiness, love itself, can have...existence crumbles away from under us, and leaves us at last sitting in the midst of a ruin, astonished at our own desola- 1 0) tion." Duty is based upon a... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...more religious from whose habitudes the same proceed. HOOKER. Duty is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong,...existence crumbles away from under us, and leaves us at last sitting in the midst of a ruin, — astonished at our own desolation. MRS. JAMESON. He who can... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 pages
...whereas, inspired by it, the weakest becomes strong and full of courage. " Duty," says Mrs. Jameson, " is the cement which binds the whole moral edifice...existence crumbles away from under us, and leaves us at last sitting in the midst of a ruin, astonished at our own desolation." Duty is based upon a sense... | |
| Maxims - 1876 - 338 pages
...their deeds, but according to their endeavours. — Henry. DUTY. |UTY is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong,...gifted, can be complete without this abiding principle. — Mrs. Jameson. To do good to men is the great work of life ; to make them true Christians is the... | |
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