| John Stoughton - 1884 - 416 Seiten
...calmly resign himself to the disposal of unerring Wisdom. " Should it please God," he went on to say, " to cut off my life in the prosecution of this design,...deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty, and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures... | |
| Hundred greatest men - 1885 - 530 Seiten
...not insensible of the dangers that must attend such a journey. Should it please God to cut off niy life in the prosecution of this design, let not my conduct be imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to the serious conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty."... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1894 - 442 Seiten
...journey. Trusting, however, in the protection of that kind Providence which has hitherto preserved me, I calmly and cheerfully commit myself to the disposal...deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty; and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures... | |
| Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1902 - 262 Seiten
...kind Providence which 1 Field's Correifmdcnu of John Ho-warJ, p. 147. * Ib. has hitherto preserved me, I calmly and cheerfully commit myself to the disposal...prosecution of this design, let not my conduct be uncmididly imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to a serious, deliberate conviction that I am pursuing... | |
| Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson - 1905 - 258 Seiten
...kind Providence which 1 Field's Correspondena of John Howard, p. 147. 2 It. has hitherto preserved me, I calmly and cheerfully commit myself to the disposal...deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty ; and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures... | |
| William Hepworth Dixon - 1918 - 416 Seiten
...journey. Trusting, however, in the protection of that kind Providence which has hitherto preserved me, I calmly and cheerfully commit myself to the disposal...deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty ; and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures,... | |
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