| 1826 - 590 ページ
...home. ** APHORISM XI. An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a single passion or ' subtle bosom...the habit of reflection, than a year's study in the school without them. " APHORISM XX. Among the various undertakings of men, can there be mentioned one... | |
| 1830 - 592 ページ
...when he says, that ' an hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest prayer, ' or the conflict with and conquest over a single passion or ' subtle bosom...than a year's study in the schools without them.' But it is time that we allowed Mr. Hoppus to speak for himself on the object of his Essay, and the... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 ページ
...and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a single passion or subtle bosom-sin, will teach us more of thought, will more effectually...than a year's study in the schools without them." Tertullian had good reason for his assertion, that " the simplest Christian, if indeed a Christian,... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1832 - 264 ページ
...earnest prayer, or the conflict with and the conquest over a single passion, and subtle bosom siri, will teach us more of thought, will more effectually...of reflection, than a year's study in the schools (of the learned) without them."—EDITOR. The chief of sinners—yes, LORD, I am the chief of sinners.... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 ページ
...discourse. •f• ' An hour of solitude, passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a single passion or ' subtle BOSOM...than a year's study in the schools without them. In a world, the opinions of which are drawn from outside shows, many things may be paradoxical, (that... | |
| 1833 - 744 ページ
...»nd earnest prayer," (to borrow another of Coleridge's burning thoughts) " or, the conflict with, and conquest over a single passion, or subtle bosom...reflection than a year's study in the schools, without them ;" so, on the other hand, the perfect mastery of a theorem of Euclid will give a tone and vigor to... | |
| 1833 - 814 ページ
...the lov'd of God ! DC AN hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a single passion or " subtle bosom...reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them. A reflecting mind is not a flower that grows wild, or comes up of its own accord. The difficulty is... | |
| 1833 - 310 ページ
...the lov'd of God ! DC AN hour of solitude passed in sincere and earuet prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a single passion or " subtle bosom...faculty, and form the habit, of reflection, than a year s study in the schools without them. A reflecting mind is not a flower that grows wild, or comes... | |
| Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 ページ
...this discourse. f * An hour of solitude, passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a single passion or 'subtle BOSOM...more of thought, will more effectually awaken the PACUI.TV, and form the HABIT, of reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them. * In... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 ページ
...by his reply. "A conquest over a single passion," says Coleridge, will teach us more of thought, and more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the...reflection, than a year's study in the schools without it." The purifying of the heart naturally tends to strengthen the intellect, and fit it for the reception... | |
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