 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...a calm constancy — it was so totally the reverse of anything 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.... | |
 | Business life - 1861 - 256 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...to be less. The habitual passion of his mind was a pitch of excitement and impulsion almost equal to the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common minds... | |
 | 1861 - 44 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...individual forbidding it to be less." ******» " The moment of finishing his plans in deliberation, and commencing them in action, was the same. I wonder... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of anything like turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature...forbidding it to be less. The habitual passion of his mind waa a pitch of excitement and impulsion almost equal to the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common... | |
 | George Coutie - 1862 - 218 pages
...of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of anything like turoulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the nature of the Auman mind forbidding it to be less. The Aafiitual passion of his mind was a measure of feeling almost... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1864 - 582 pages
...of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of anything like turbulence or agitation. It -was the calmness of an intensity, kept uniform by the...of the individual forbidding it to be less."* The case of Howard, marked and extraordinary as it is, does not stand alone. Every age of the world and... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pages
...of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of anything like turbulence or agitation. It had the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature...to be less. The habitual passion of his mind was a pitch of excitement and compulsion almost equal to the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common minds... | |
 | S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 pages
...of a calm constancy, it was so totally the reverse of anything like turbulence or agitation. It was the calmness of an intensity kept uniform by the nature...to be less. The habitual passion of his mind was a pitch of excitement and impulsion, almost equal to the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common minds... | |
 | 1867 - 612 pages
...Christian philanthropists, of Mrs. Fry, of Sarah Martiu, and of Howard, " the habitual passion of whose mind was a measure of feeling almost equal to the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common minds. Look at the self-sacrificing spirit of not a few modern missionaries — of a Harriet Newell, a Mrs.... | |
 | 1867 - 488 pages
...philanthropists — of Mrs. Fry, of Sarah Martin, and of Howard — " the habitual passion of whose minds was a measure of feeling almost equal to the temporary extremes and paroxysms of common mindsLook at the self-sacrificing spirit of not a few modern missionaries — of a Harriet Newell,... | |
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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. 
