The Life and Character of Leonard WoodsWarren F. Draper, 1880 - 52 頁 |
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第 44 頁 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
第 33 頁 - I do not hesitate to include among the enemies of talk the so-called great talkers. These gentlemen, we are told, sacrificed everything for talk. Tom Moore tells us how he and Rogers " spoke of poor Mackintosh; said he had sacrificed himself to conversation ; that he read for it, thought for it, and gave up future fame for it.
第 29 頁 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
第 22 頁 - I have aimed high. I have tried to do something that may be remembered. I have had the year 2000, and even the year 3000, often in my mind. I have sacrificed nothing to temporary fashions of thought and style ; and, if I fail, my failure will be more honourable than nine-tenths of the successes that I have witnessed.
第 19 頁 - Theology from contempt; and how has this promise been performed ? In the days of Spener, Theology was the Queen of Sciences, so acknowledged by the mouth of Bacon, Leibnitz, Haller, and others, —their chosen oracles. She wore the insignia of divinity ; and " filled her odorous lamp" at the very original fountain of light.
第 46 頁 - ... character than the whole encyclopedia of knowledge. In each one of the 20 colleges here there is a chapel, the poorest of which surpasses the richest I have ever seen in America. And the service daily performed within them is congruous to the place. In several of them it is performed by 8 chaplains and 16 choristers, robed in white, who are all supported by the foundations, and by whom, day by day and year after year, God is magnified in strains delivered down from the primitive church, if not...
第 8 頁 - It may be said of him, as has been remarked of a kindred genius, that " he did not need the smart of guilt to make him virtuous, nor the regret of folly to make him wise."* In the summer of 1800 he received the honours of the university.
第 42 頁 - ... in the church ; to be strict observers of the laws, which cannot be justly taken from you without your own consent : in short, " to obey God and the king, and meddle not with those who are given to change.
第 37 頁 - ... participation in the government of the College, which was wholly autocratic. He would say to me, in substance: As a theory, your doctrine is right. It contains principles that should never be lost sight of, where they are truly applicable. It is thus applicable to the army, to the city, to the State. But the College is a family, and its government should be parental.
第 25 頁 - I see a man with serene countenance in garden or parlor, it looks like a great inward leisure that he enjoys, but in reality he sails on no summer's sea. This steady sailing comes of a heavy hand on the tiller. We do not attend to larks and bluebirds so leisurely but that conscience is as erect as the attitude of the listener. The man of principle gets never a holiday. Our true character underlies all our words and actions, as the granite underlies the other strata.