| Walter Scott - 1864 - 354 páginas
...apt to say, verily virtue has had its reward. But a glance on the great picture of life will shew, that the duties of selfdenial, and the sacrifice of...recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give or take away. ABBOTSFOCD 1st September, 1830. DEDICATORY EPISTLE 10 THE REV. DOCTOR DRYASDUST,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1868 - 710 páginas
...apt to say, verily virtue has had its reward. But a glance on the great picture of life will shew, that the duties of selfdenial, and the sacrifice of...recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give or take away. ABBOTSFORD lit September, 1880. DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THE REV. DOCTOR DRYASDUST,... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1870 - 414 páginas
...temporal wealth, greatness, or rank, the reader will be apt to say, Verily virtue has had its reward. But a glance at the great picture of life will show that...consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces in their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot... | |
| REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN - 1870 - 414 páginas
...temporal wealth, greatness, or rank, the reader will be apt to say, Verily virtue has had its reward. But a glance at the great picture of life will show that...consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces in their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1870 - 414 páginas
...remunerated, and that the internal consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces in their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot give nor take away.' After all this, it may seem poor praise to say that not only do Scott's... | |
| REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, DUNDEE - 1871 - 424 páginas
...temporal wealth, greatness, or rank, the reader will be apt to say, Verily virtue has had its reward. But a glance at the great picture of life will show that...consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces in their own reflections a more adequate recompense, in the form of that peace which the world cannot... | |
| Jane Louisa Willyams - 1871 - 526 páginas
...prosperity. Such is not the recompense which Providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit. A glance on the great picture of life will show that the duties...of passion to principle are seldom thus remunerated ; that the internal consciousness of their high-minded discharge of duty produces on their own reflections... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 968 páginas
...for Rebecca replies, "The internal consciousness of high-minded discharge of duty" produced for her "a more adequate recompense in the form of that peace which the world can not give or take away." Full of suggestion as is the life of Scott — essentially the life of n man... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1871 - 980 páginas
...for Rebecca replies, "The internal consciousness of high-minded discharge of duly"prod need for her "a more adequate recompense in the form of that peace which the world can not give or take away." Full of suggestion as is the life of Scott — essentially the life of a man... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, selections]) - 1872 - 266 páginas
...say, " Verily, virtue has had its reward." But a glance at the great picture of life will show us, that the duties of selfdenial, and the sacrifice of passion to principle, [even when there is nothing morally wrong in the passion itself,] are seldom thus remunerated ; and... | |
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