 I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of...  The American Journal of Education - Page 171edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad for... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding th to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities, sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain... | |
 | William Ware - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1850 - 424 pages
...escape from this rigid system of Divinity and return to the place of his education, and again " behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." It should be remembered that from the very foundation of Harvard University there had always prevailed... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." And, again : " For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must, in nature, needs be a hateful thing... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...fed cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...fed cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,' &c. He still, however, obstinately persisted in what he thought his duty. But surely these speculations... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...another task ;" and that in this he had but the " use, as it were, of his left hand." He panted for beholding the " bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," and had yet long enough to pant. Hitherto, Milton had remained alone — and his life, on the whole, had... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...cheerful and confident thought, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities, cold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...another task ;" and that in this he had but the " use, as it were, of his left hand." He panted for beholding the " bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful stndies," and had yet long enough to pant. Hitherto, Milton had remained alone — and his life, on... | |
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