 I am drawing near to the close of my career ; I am fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle,...  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 323edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - United States - 1878 - 604 pages
...life, he said of himself: "I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principle." Let us all thank God for that record, and still more for the fact which it so justly embodies. It were... | |
 | J. W. Appleton - 1879 - 216 pages
...words of Scott were these : " I have been perhaps the most voluminous writer of my day, and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principles, and that I have written nothing which, on my deathbed, I should wish blotted out." It is... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Life skills - 1880 - 394 pages
...fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle...nothing which on my deathbed I should wish blotted." Surely when for us, too, the sands in life's hour-glass are nearly run out, when the lengthening shadows... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1880 - 456 pages
...fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principles, and that I have written nothing which on my deathbed I should wish blotted." The same might... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1880 - 474 pages
...before he died, he said : " I have been, perhaps, the most voluminous author of the day, and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principles, and that I have written nothing which, on my death-bed, I should wish blotted." Melrose... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1880 - 460 pages
...comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principles, and that I have written nothing which on my deathbed I should wish blotted." The same might be said of Charles Dickens. He was the Apostle of the People. " I have read," said the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 384 pages
...fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle...my deathbed I should wish blotted.' I made no reply ; and while we were yet silent, Don Michele Gaetani joined us. and we walked through the vast hall... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 386 pages
...fast shuffling off the stage. I have been perhaps the most voluminous author of the day ; and it is a comfort to me to 'think that I have tried to unsettle...my deathbed I should wish blotted.' I made no reply ; and while we were yet silent, Don Michele Gaetani joined us. and we walked through the vast hall... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 pages
...Dying Acknowledgment of an I have been, perhaps, the most voluminous author of my day, and it a> a comfort to me to think that I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principles, and that I have written nothing which on my death-bed I should wish blotted out.— Sir... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...I am ready to tear it to pieces in his presence." Sir Walter Scott was comforted by the thought, " I have tried to unsettle no man's faith, to corrupt no man's principles, and have written nothing which on my death-bed I should wish blotted." Boileau said to... | |
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