 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 412 sider
...tho nearest relations, to take heed of being snares, instead of helps, to one another." — Fuller. Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that tho dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: 'Do the duty which lies near thee,' which... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1877 - 362 sider
...it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake. — D. JERRÜLD. — Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain...vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day. lay this precept well to heart : " Do the DUTY which lies nearest to thee." which thou knowest to be a duty... | |
 | 1877 - 1144 sider
...in duty, — in duty, not in happiness, — is found God's most intimate presence with the soul. " Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain...vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this . . . precept well to heart, Do the Duty which lies nearest to thee." That this duty should not harden... | |
 | Navy - 1878 - 154 sider
...vortices : only by a felt indubitable certainty of experience does it find any centre to revolve round and so fashion itself into a system. Most true is...Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by action.' " There is an amusing story told of an old boatman, who taught a couple of beligerent divines a good... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 sider
...But in duty, — in duty, not in happ ness, — is found God's most intimate presence with the souL " Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain...vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this . . . precept well to heart, Do the Duty which lies nearest to thee." That this duty should not harden... | |
 | 1878 - 636 sider
...A German translation, by Dr. Halle r, of Mr. Morley's book on Compromise will shortly be published. LET him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain...vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart : " Do the duty which lies nearest to thee, which thou knovvest to be a duty;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 sider
...vortices : only by a felt indubitable certainty of experience does it find any centre to revolve round, dsrkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 sider
...other than ourselves can seize. " Let him," to quote Teufelsdrockh again, " who gropes principally in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart, ' Do the duty which lies nearest thee.' " We shall need po help from others... | |
 | 1881 - 552 sider
...does it find any centre to revolve round and so fashion itself into a system. Most true is it, аз a wise man teaches us, that " doubt of any sort cannot...On which ground, too, let him who gropes painfully and in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this... | |
 | 1911 - 828 sider
...Experience does it find any centre to revolve round, and so fashion itself into a system. Most true it is, as a wise man teaches us, that 'Doubt of any sort cannot be removed^except by Action.' " — THOMAS CAM.YLE. INSTANCES of minor surgical operations wherein the... | |
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On which ground, too, let him who gropes painfully and in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service, " Do the duty which lies nearest... 
