 It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 554edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 504 pages
...ruins. Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had...looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that, even at the greatest distance, as the Egyptian Pyramids... | |
 | Richard Treffry - 1833 - 386 pages
...life. Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had...concentration of his forces, as to idle spectators looks like insanity.* " Where the results which he desired," says Mr. Calder, " did not attend his... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1833 - 522 pages
...Such a sin against taste is very far " beyond the reach of common saintship to com" mit. It implied an inconceivable severity of " conviction, that he...with such "a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spec" tators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks " like insanity. His attention was so strongly... | |
 | John Foster - 1833 - 324 pages
...ruins. Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had...who would do some great thing in this short life, mu?t apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...There is danger of being burnt if you get too near the fire. He, who would achieve any thing great in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks almost... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1834 - 524 pages
...Such a sin against taste is very far " beyond the reach of common saintship to com" mit. It implied an inconceivable severity of " conviction, that he...with such "a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spec" tators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks " like insanity. His attention was so strongly... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1834 - 562 pages
...forbidding it to be more, and the character of the individual forbidding it to be less. His conduct implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had...who would do some great thing in this short life, musi apply himself to the work, with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1836 - 482 pages
...; such a sin against taste, is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had...looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even in the greatest distance, as the Egyptian pyramids appear... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...ruins. Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some one great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his... | |
 | Herbert Mayo - 1838 - 360 pages
...ruins. Such a sin against taste is very far beyond the reach of common saintship to commit. It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had...looks like insanity. " His attention was so strongly and tenaciously fixed on his object, that even at the greatest distance, as the Egyptian pyramids to... | |
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