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" 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... "
Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of ... - Page 64
by American Institute of Instruction - 1850
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A Sketch of Missions, Or, History of the Principal Attempts to Propagate ...

Miron Winslow - 1819 - 446 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...who would do some great thing, in this short life, mustapply himself to the work, with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who...
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The Life of David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians; with an Abridgment of ...

John Styles - 1820 - 310 pages
...forbidding it to be less." His conduct " implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he /tad one thing to do ,• and that he who would do some...the work with such a concentration of his forces, as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Brainerd, indeed, " displayed...
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The Life of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: With an Abridgement ...

John Styles - 1821 - 308 pages
...individual forbidding it to be less." His conduct "implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that ht had one thing to do; and that he who would do some...the work with such a concentration of his forces, as to idle spectators. who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." .Brainerd, indeed, "displayed...
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The Life of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: With an Abridgement ...

John Styles - 1821 - 298 pages
...forbidding it to be less." His conduct "implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he hud one thing to do; and that he who would do some great...the work with such a concentration of his forces, as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Brainerd, indeed, "displayed...
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Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist

James Baldwin Brown - 1823 - 700 pages
...its 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...work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly...
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An Historical Inquiry Into the Principal Circumstances and Events Relative ...

Barclay Mounteney - 1824 - 580 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...the work with such a concentration of his forces, as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity*. » * Foster's Essays,...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1825 - 864 pages
...its 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...work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. His attention was so strongly...
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Hints to Parents: In Two Parts

1825 - 90 pages
...consciousness of duty, as to refus« himself time for surveying the magnificence of its ruins. This implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that...apply himself to the work with such a concentration of hif forces, as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse thcmselvei, looks like insanity. His attention...
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Hints to Parents ...: No. I[-VI], Issues 1-6

1825 - 498 pages
...consciousness of duty, as to refuse himself time for surveying the magnificence of its ruins. This implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that...short life, must apply himself to the work with such a con. 59 in the cultivation of the young heart; and if judiciously managed, forms a subject of the highest...
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The Christian Magazine, Volume 3

1826 - 478 pages
...mind fobidding it to be more and the character of the individual forbidding it to be less. His conduct implied an inconceivable severity of conviction that...apply himself to the work with such a concentration of forces as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. — History of...
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