| Anna Letitia Le Breton - 1884 - 246 pages
...thought and respect for individual conviction. " Dr Parr said of him after his death : — " ' Whatsoever his hand found to do, he did it with all his might : he knew the value of every fleeting moment ; and he improved every talent which a gracious Providence... | |
| Albert Leighton Rawson - 1886 - 866 pages
...1863. The characteristics of Dr. Beecher were energy and boldness, and they permeated his every action. Whatever his hand found to do he did it with all his might. He always struck at the root of the tree; no half-way measures would do for him. It was no wonder that... | |
| John Price - 1897 - 128 pages
...self-indulgence of any kind to interfere with the demands of his business. It might be said of him, " Whatsoever his hand found to do he did it with all his might." It could be said of Mr. Fowler, also, as was said of the Napoleon of commerce in the North of England,... | |
| Arthur Edmund Garnier - 1900 - 308 pages
...days, giving indications of a great feature which characterized his after life — "that whatsoever his hand found to do, he did it with all his might." But all the pursuits he laid aside for ever, two years after he had taken orders, and gave henceforth... | |
| 1902 - 848 pages
...blended so harmoniously with its surroundings. Of no man can it be more truly said that whatsoever his hand found to do he did it with all his might; the de minimis non curat did not exist for Pasteur. As Dean of the new Facultfi des Sciences at Lille,... | |
| William E. Adams - 1903 - 388 pages
...least striking nor the least admired of Bradlaugh's characteristics were his industry and his energy. Whatever his hand found to do he did it with all his might. His motto was " Thorough." And he lived up to it. I am satisfied that his days would have been longer... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1905 - 466 pages
...by virtue of his position, were thrust upon him. It may lie truthfully said of him that whatsoever his hand found to do he did it with all his might. Some years ago Roberts-Austen acquired a small place at Chilworth, near Guildford, to which he would... | |
| Maarten Maartens - 1906 - 440 pages
...world a trifle happier than you found it. What mortal could desire more ! But I ? " " ' Whatsoever his hand found to do, he did it with all his might '," replied Edward. " That's in the Bible, isn't it? Or something similar. I am not in the habit of... | |
| 1850 - 662 pages
...He was seldom, if ever, when circumstances would allow, absent from the post of duty. " Whatsoever his hand found to do, he did it with all his might." As a local preacher, for a period of nearly twenty years, I have been informed, he was never known... | |
| Esther Meynell - 1909 - 396 pages
...out some of his less admirable qualities — for Pepys never slipped through his duties, whatsoever his hand found to do he did it with all his might. If proof of this were needed it might be found in fourteen vellum-bound folios in the Pepysian Library... | |
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