 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action — and to that cultivation of the mild virtues, tterfilled anything ; but we are saying, that, upon the whole, it is the best method of employing time ; and that... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action ; and to that cultivation of the mild virtues, which those who cultivate the stern and magnanimous...we would not hazard such a proposition respecting anything; but we are saying that upon the whole, it is the best method of employing time, and that... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1880 - 328 pages
...their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action — and to that cultivation of the mild virtues, which those who cultivate the stern and magnanimous...We would not hazard such a proposition respecting anything ; but we are saying, that, upon the whole, it is the best method of employing time ; and that... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 636 pages
...their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action — and to that cultivation of the mild virtues, which those who cultivate the stern and magnanimous virtues expect at their hands." PRINCIPLES AND PASSIONS. I don't mean to say that principle is not a finer thing than passion ; but... | |
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... modesty and the refined manners of women to their being well taught in moral and religious duty, to the hazardous situation in which they are placed, to that perpetual vigilance which it is their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action, and... 
