 I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others ; not genius, power, wit, or fancy : but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing...  Peter Schlemihl in America ... - 第 276 頁George Wood 著 - 1848 - 494 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1854 - 594 頁
...ENVY no quality of mind or intellect in others, said Sir Humphrey Davy — not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful,...religious belief to every other blessing, for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the... | |
 | 1894 - 868 頁
...stud the brilliant lecturer and man of science, Sir Humphry Davy, — " not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should picfer a firm religious belief to every other blessing. For it makes life a disciplino of goodness,... | |
 | 1879 - 444 頁
...Davy's " Salmonia" : " I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others, be it genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe would be most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing : for it... | |
 | 1855 - 616 頁
...GREAT MAN'S PREFERENCE. I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others — not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful,...religious belief to every other blessing, for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 360 頁
...Sir Humphrey Davy: " I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others, be it genius, power, wit, or fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful,...religious belief to every other blessing. For it makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish ; and throws over the... | |
 | William Kay - 1855 - 150 頁
...of his feelings1: "I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others — not genius, power, wit, or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful,...religious belief to every other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 632 頁
...band by starvation.] A GEEAT MAN'S PBEFEEENCE. — I envy no quality of mind or intellect in others ; but if I could choose what would be most delightful,...religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness, creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1855 - 252 頁
...qualities of the mind or intellect in others, nor genius, nor power, wit or fancy," says Sir H. Davy: "but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I 'believe, most useful to me, I ness in the family of a gentleman of great respectability. The lady had no conception from whom the... | |
 | Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé - 1855 - 858 頁
...qualities of the mind or intellect in others, nor genius, nor power, wit or fancy," says Sir H. Davy: "but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I ness in the family of a gentleman of great respectability. The lady had no conception from whom the... | |
 | 1855 - 838 頁
...that our age of progress is wholly utilitarian. They have noble compeers in America. A FIRM FAITH. IF I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, said Sir Humphrey Davy, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes... | |
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