 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1854 - 844 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...reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering ; and is this a greatness, which is apt to make a show, or which is most likely to abound in conspicuous... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...highest of human endowments, that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. 52. The Same, continued. THE greatest man is he who chooses the right with...the sorest temptations from within and without who hears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Mental health - 1855 - 490 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...whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaitering ; and is this a greatness, which is apt to make a show, or which is most likely to abound... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Mental health - 1855 - 496 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...heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms aad most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, oil virtue, on God, is most unfah»ring... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - Conduct of life - 1855 - 300 pages
...our decay. That none, except a god, or God him guide, May them avoid or remedy provide.'' SPENSER. "The greatest man is he who chooses the right with...who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully ; who is the calmest in storms, and whose reliance on Truth, on Virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering." CHANGING.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Mental health - 1855 - 498 pages
...temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms aad most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering ; and is this a greatness, which is apt to make a show, or which is most likejy to abound in conspicuous... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1857 - 470 pages
...second person, on the other hand, follow interjections in the nominative as, " O thou" UNDER § 116. The greatest man is he who chooses the right with...storms, and most fearless under menace and frowns and whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering — The delightful freedom... | |
 | 1857 - 834 pages
...world, ' This ia a Man !' " He is the true Aristocrat, who (to use the charmed words of Kllery Channing) "chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and from without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and the most fearless... | |
 | 1858 - 330 pages
...it before. It is a description of what the writer considers true greatness. "The greatest man is ho who chooses the right with invincible resolution,...reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering ; and is this a greatness which is apt to make a show, or which is most likely to abound in conspicuous... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Graham - Shorthand - 1858 - 400 pages
...moral, greatness — that highest of human endowments, that brightest manifestation of the Divinity. The greatest man is he who chooses the right with...the sorest temptations from within and without, who boara the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms, and most fearless undci menace and... | |
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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... 
