 | Joseph Benson - 1802 - 382 pages
...a recompence as this is fufficient to repay the toils of the longeft life. Short of this, greatnefs is .contemptible impotence Before this, lofty prelates bow, and princes hide their diminifhed heads. K 3 His His zeal was not a tranfient blaze, but a ftcady and conftant flame. The... | |
 | John Whitehead - 1805 - 570 pages
...stay, buch a recumpeiice as this, is sufficient to repay the toils of the longest life. Short of this, greatness is contemptible impotence. Before this,...transient blaze, but a steady and constant flame. The ardour of his spirit was neither damped In difficulty, nor subdued by age. This was ascribed by himself,... | |
 | George Bourne - 1807 - 366 pages
...stay. Such a recompence as this, is sufficient to repay the toils of the longest life. Short of this, greatness is contemptible impotence. Before this,...transient blaze, but a steady and constant flame. The ardour of his spirit was neither damped by difficulty, nor subdued by age. This was ascribed by himself... | |
 | John Wesley - 1810 - 432 pages
...stay- Sacl* a recompence as this, is sufficient to repay the toils of the longest life. Short of this, greatness is contemptible impotence. Before this,...transient blaze, but a steady and constant flame. The ardour of bis spirit was neither damped by difficulty, nor subdued by age. This was ascribed by himself,... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1817 - 630 pages
...stay. Such a recompense as this is sufficient to repay the toils of the longest life. Short of this, greatness is contemptible impotence. Before this,...transient blaze, but a steady and constant flame. The ardour of his spirit was neither damped by difficulty, nor subdued by age. This was ascribed by himself... | |
 | Henry Moore - 1825 - 606 pages
...stay. Such a recompence as this is sufficient to repay the toils of the longest life. Short of this, greatness is contemptible impotence. Before this,...transient blaze, but a steady and constant flame. The ardour of his spirit was neither damped by difficulty, nor subdued by age. This was ascribed by himself... | |
 | Henry Moore - 1826 - 332 pages
...stay. Such a recompense as this is sufficient to repay the toils of the longest life. Short of this, greatness is contemptible impotence. Before this,...transient blaze, but a steady and constant flame. The ardour of his spirit was neither damped by difficulty, nor subdued by age. This was ascribed by himself... | |
 | 1826 - 440 pages
...stay. Such a recompense as this is sufficient to repay "the toils of the longest life. Short of this, greatness is contemptible impotence. Before this,...prelates bow, and princes hide their diminished heads. " HLS zeal was not a transient blaze, but a steady and constant flame. The ardor of his spirit was... | |
 | John Wesley - 1827 - 580 pages
...stay. Such a recompence as this is sufficient to repay the toils of the longest life. Short of this, greatness is contemptible impotence. Before this lofty...transient blaze, but a steady and constant flame. The ardour of his spirit was neither damped by difficulty, nor subdued by age. This was ascribed by himself... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1831 - 346 pages
...stay. Such a recompense as this is sufficient to repay the toils of the longest life. Short of this, greatness is contemptible impotence. Before this,...transient blaze, but a steady and constant flame. The ardour of his spirit was neither damped by difficulty, nor subdued by age. This was ascribed by himself... | |
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... heaven ; to him they looked as their father, their benefactor, their guide to glory and immortality ; for him they fell prostrate before God, with prayers and tears to spare his doom, and prolong his stay. Such a recompense as this is sufficient to... 
