 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | William Ware - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1850 - 410 pages
...agency can be defended, every thing else which they preach may be. Who swallows that, cnn swallow nil. I don't know but I should resolve to be a preacher...education, and again " behold the bright countenance of trnth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." It should be remembered that from the very... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 272 pages
...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 - 594 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...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 - 370 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Poets, English - 1855 - 510 pages
...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, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
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I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness 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... 
