 | Robert Thomas Middleditch - 1854 - 512 pages
...he was taken up, he knew no other end. In the language of Foster, concerning John Howard, he " had an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had...the work with such a concentration of his forces, as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." It is scarcely necessary... | |
 | Robert Thomas Middleditch - 1854 - 498 pages
...he was taken up, he knew no other end. In the language of Foster, concerning John Howard, he " had an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had...the work with such a concentration of his forces, as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." It is scarcely necessary... | |
 | 1854 - 104 pages
...single particle ; but let in a sunbeam, and how much dust and motes are hovering about ! — JP Richter. He who would do some great thing in this short life...the work with such a concentration of his forces as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. — Foster. Devote some... | |
 | S. B - 1855 - 114 pages
...fully impressed as his was with the conviction that tie work he engaged in was " the one thing for him to do, and that he who would do some great thing in...the work with such a concentration of his forces as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." The remark of Foster,... | |
 | John Baillie - 1856 - 266 pages
...Characteristics — Conversation " HE who would do some great thing in this short life," writes Foster, "must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Above and beyond all other... | |
 | John Baillie - 1856 - 260 pages
...Characteristics— Conversation " HE who would do some great thing in this short life," writes Foster, " must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.1' Above and beyond all... | |
 | 1856 - 588 pages
...be able to con~ centrate its powers upon the matter in hand. — Rev. J. B, Lester. WISE INSANITY. HE who would do some great thing in this short life, must set himself to the work with such a concentral ion of his powers as, to idle spectators, who live only... | |
 | 1857 - 396 pages
...— a persistent, untamable efficacy of soul — with the energy of Howard ; he had one thing to do. He who would do some great thing in this short life,...work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. Qftmational ASHLAND. —... | |
 | 1858 - 572 pages
...antiquities and works of art, he concludes. " It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that be had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must npply himself to the work, with such a concentration of his forces, O8, to idle speculators, who live... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1858 - 484 pages
...work ere he went to rest. " He who would do some great thing in this short life," said John Foster, " must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as, to idle spectators, who live 'only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity." Thus lived and laboured... | |
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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... 
