| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 Seiten
...that it was the high moral elements of his character, which imparted to it its preponderating force. " Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, conscience" was one of a series of maxims which he framed or copied for his own use, when a boy. He... | |
| Ethan Allen Hitchcock - 1858 - 374 Seiten
...calls the conscience a celestial fire, the very symbol of the Hermetic writers. " Labor," says he, " to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called Conscience." Oudworth is quoted as saying that—" A good Conscience within will be always better to a Christian... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 202 Seiten
...attributes, let it be seriously and in reverence. Honor and obey your natural parents, though they be poor. " Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." LIL—THE SAME SUBJECT, COXCLUDED. MANY persons may think, in reading the account of Washington's early... | |
| Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1865 - 252 Seiten
...Washington showed himself a man at the age of thirteen. Among the rules he then adopted, we find these: " Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience." "Let your recreations be manful, not sinful." And, to show his regard for a sincere piety, he wrote... | |
| Blade - 1865 - 268 Seiten
...showed himself a man at the age of thirteen. Among the rules he then adopted, we find these, " Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." "Let your recreations be manful, not sinful." And to show his regard for a sincere piety, he wrote... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1868 - 394 Seiten
...reverence. Honor and obey your parents, though they be poor. Let your recreations be manful, not sinful. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. VII. —THE BOOK, AND HOW TO READ IT. r I THERE is but one Book, was the death-bed testimony of Sir... | |
| 1870 - 268 Seiten
...reverence and honor, and obey your natural parents. 53. Let your recreations be manful, not sin ful. 54. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. CHAPTER XXII. Franklin's "Rules of Conduct." Framed by him for his guidance, and which helped to make... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 272 Seiten
...not imperfectly, nor bring out your words too hastily, but orderly and distinctly.' Rule 57: 'Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.' The methodical habits which we see so clearly manifested in these juvenile copy-books, were Washington's... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 Seiten
...not imperfectly, nor bring out your words too hastily, but orderly and distinctly.' Rule 57: 'Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.' The methodical habits which we see so clearly manifested in these juvenile copy-books, were Washington's... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1871 - 602 Seiten
...make which leans to strictness rather than to self-indulgence. He wrote in his copy-book, ' Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.' In few hearts did it ever burn with a steadier and more constant flame. Yet there was no unusual rigidity... | |
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