 | Mary Minerva Barrows - Cheerfulness - 1905 - 208 pages
...solitudes, in the private walks and by-paths of life. The evening's walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight than the march of a general at the head of a hundred thousand men. A contemplation on God's works; a voluntary act of justice to our own detriment; a generous... | |
 | Christianity - 1827 - 606 pages
...melodious sounds in ' the noise of victories.' Hence ' the evening walk of a wise man is more illustrious in their sight than the march of a general, at the head of a hundred thousand men ;' for « they do not look for great men at the head of armies, or among the pomps of... | |
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They do not look for great men at the head of armies, or among the pomps of a court, but often find them out in shades and solitudes, in the private walks and by-paths of life. 
