 | James Martineau - 1847 - 378 pagine
...heart. And if, early in the day, they are struck down, we clasp our hands in sudden anguish, and a cry goes up that the field is lost. And though this despair...from the surface of the earth, and become absorbed into its substance, the perennial root of their life remains, bearing a blossom ever fair, and a foliage... | |
 | James Martineau - 1847 - 372 pagine
...heart. And if, early in the day, they are struck down, we clasp our hands in sudden anguish, and a cry goes up that the field is lost. And though this despair...from the surface of the earth, and become absorbed into its substance, the perennial root of their life remains, bearing a blossom ever fair, and a foliage... | |
 | 1872 - 444 pagine
...tents of ease, and advance to the dangers of lonely enterprise and the conflict with splendid wrong. But there is a life higher than either of these. The...majesty of their spirit is essential and eternal. While to some God gives it to show themselves through their work, to others he assigns it to show themselves... | |
 | James Martineau - 1874 - 602 pagine
...these. The saintly is beyond the heroic mind. To get good, is animal : to do good, is human : to he good, is divine. The true use of a man's possessions...from the surface of the earth, and become absorbed into its substance, the perennial root of their life remains, bearing a blossom ever fair, and a foliage... | |
 | American Medical Association - 1878 - 1242 pagine
...from his private life, for lie was honorable, truthful, pure, and lovely. "The noblest workers of the world bequeath us nothing so great as the image of...majesty of their spirit is essential and eternal." At the opening of the session 1877-78 in the Nashville Medical College, he seemed in more than his... | |
 | James Martineau - 1881 - 480 pagine
...of every good cause that has mustered for battle on his earth ; yet, no doubt, the victory in such a case is deferred : the plan is broken off : the painful...from the surface of the earth, and become absorbed into its substance, the perennial root of their life remains, bearing a blossom ever fair, and a foliage... | |
 | James Martineau - 1885 - 558 pagine
...of every good cause that has mustered for battle on his earth ; yet, no doubt, the victory in such a case is deferred : the plan is broken off: the painful...nothing so great as the image of themselves. Their l<isk, be it ever so glorious, is historical and transient : the majesty of their spirit is essential... | |
 | James Martineau - 1890 - 480 pagine
...ripen ere it dropped. The great function of their life required time for its fulfilment ; and time hns been denied. Their beneficent action was wholly through...from the surface of the earth, and become absorbed into its substance, the perennial root of their life remains, bearing a blossom ever fair, and a foliage... | |
 | 1901 - 810 pagine
...as worlds are made of; and the power to unfold them shall ever be ours, in ever-increasing measure. To GET good is animal ; to do good is human ; to be...bequeath us nothing so great as the image of themselves. — James Martineau. WHEN the Christian churches shall have removed from their confessions the doctrine... | |
 | James Martineau - 1900 - 578 pagine
...case is deferred : the plan is broken off : the painful sense of a suspended work, that might Lave been finished, remains upon survivors' hearts. On...from the surface of the earth, and become absorbed into its substance, the perennial root of their life remains, bearing a blossom ever fair, and a foliage... | |
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The noblest -workers of our world bequeath us nothing so great as the image of themselves. Their task, be it ever so glorious, is historical and transient : the majesty of their spirit is essential and eternal. When the external conditions which supplied... 
