| 1822 - 500 pagine
...to a future field of labour, as the only one in which he could be useful. He felt the force of that precept, " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might'" — and he improved the most favourable opportunities to urge upon those with whom he had intercourse, the... | |
| Margaret Goodman - 1862 - 260 pagine
...lady, " Miss X is one of the happiest women in the world : she really enjoys life. Do you know \vhy ? It is because she is almost a born fool." And a Protestant...will account the aid we render our neighbour in the tour of extremity as done unto Himself; then tow can it be wrong in any heart to look for sympathy... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - 1873 - 336 pagine
...Energy, or the ethics of the heart, the mind, and the strength. This last variety is well summed up in the precept : " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might ;" and consists in that moral earnestness, which constitutes true heroism, when once it is devoted to the... | |
| 1896 - 588 pagine
...philanthropy and Christian work enthusiasm due to other things ' (i. 9). He had already adopted as his guide the precept, ' Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,' and was steadily amassing materials for thinking before attempting to give expression to his thought. A... | |
| J. Milner Fothergill - 1885 - 232 pagine
...Philistine, so detrimental and injurious to the holders' best interests. It is in direct antagonism to the precept " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." And what follows ? " For there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither... | |
| William Tallack - 1905 - 352 pagine
...sitting for a little while in silence, the new inmate suddenly exclaimed that he had been thinking of the precept, " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might," and forthwith he struck the superintendent violently. Mr Sturge was the subject of one of the cartoons... | |
| Edmond Holmes - 1912 - 328 pagine
...is a real pleasure to the Utopian child. Indeed his whole being is a living response to the familiar precept : "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." And what he does with his might is always well worth doing. His constant effort to express himself has,... | |
| W. T. Andrews - 1912 - 374 pagine
...energy knew no abatement even with the weight of more than threescore and ten years upon him. He obeyed the precept, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might ;" and having directed his energies to a given end, he conserved what 132 was gained. While contributing liberally... | |
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