 | 1805 - 506 pages
...had an equability of manner, which scarcely appeared to exceed the tone of acalm constancy. It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the...nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and the character of the individual forbidding it to be less. The habitual passion of his mind was a measure... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pages
...had an equability of manner, which scarcely appeared to exceod the tone of a calm constancy. It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the...nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and the character of the individual forbidding it to be less. The habitual passion of his mind was a measure... | |
 | 1806 - 854 pages
...had an equability of manner, which scarcely appeared to exceed the tone of a calm constancy. It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the...nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and the character of tbe individual forbidding it to be les«. The habitual passion of his mind was a measure... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...had an equability of manner, which scarcely appeared tb exceed the tone of a calm constancy. It was the calmness of an . intensity, kept uniform by the nature of the human mirid forbidding it to be more, and the character of the individual forbidding it to be less1. The... | |
 | John Foster - 1807 - 402 pages
...of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of any thing like turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature...the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common minds : as a great river, in its customary state, is equal to a small or moderate one when swollen to a torrent,... | |
 | 1808 - 614 pages
...cairn constancy, it wa» so totally the reverse of any thing like turbulence or agitation. It was tbc calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature...the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common minds : as a great river, in its customary state, is equal to a small or moderate one when swollen to a torrent.... | |
 | 1808 - 604 pages
...of a calm coiuUncy, it was su totally the reverse of any thing lik« turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbiddingitto be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less. The habitual... | |
 | John Foster - 1811 - 484 pages
...of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of any thing like turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature...a measure of feeling almost equal to the temporary ex* tf ernes and 'paroxysms of common minds : as a great river, in its customary state, is equal to... | |
 | John Styles - 1812 - 322 pages
...of a calm constancy: it was so totally the reverse of any thing like turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the...character of the individual forbidding it to be less." His conduct "Implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to do; and that... | |
 | Miron Winslow - 1819 - 446 pages
...a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of any thing like turbulence, or agitation. It. was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform, by the...nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and the character of the individual forbidding it to be less. His conduct implied an inconceivable severity... | |
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It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the nature of the human mind forbidding it to be more, and by the character of the individual forbidding it to be less. 
