 An hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over a single passion or ' subtle bosom sin,' will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the habit, of reflection, than...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 4301830Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Christianity - 1831 - 444 pages
...translation. To exhibit the full force of the Greek word, we must say, " a power of discernment by Reason." prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a...reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them. APHORISM XII. In a world, the opinions of which are drawn from outside shows, many things may be paradoxical,... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...and earnest prayer, or the conflict with, and conquest over, a single passion or subtle bosom-sin, will teach us more of thought, will more effectually...than a year's study in the schools without them." Tertullian had good reason for his assertion, that " the simplest Christian, if indeed a Christian,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 492 pages
...into the heart of a mere philosopher to conceive. See note, at the end of this discourse. •f• ' An hour of solitude, passed in sincere and earnest...reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them. In a world, the opinions of which are drawn from outside shows, many things may be paradoxical, (that... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...bestowed ; Type of the rest when sin and care shall cease, The rest remaining for the lov'd of God ! DC AN hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest...reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them. A reflecting mind is not a flower that grows wild, or comes up of its own accord. The difficulty is... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1833 - 744 pages
...solitude passed in sincere »nd earnest prayer," (to borrow another of Coleridge's burning thoughts) " or, the conflict with, and conquest over a single...reflection than a year's study in the schools, without them ;" so, on the other hand, the perfect mastery of a theorem of Euclid will give a tone and vigor to... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - Great Britain - 1833 - 458 pages
...passion or 'subtle BOSOM SIN,' will teach us more of thought, will more effectually awaken the PACUI.TV, and form the HABIT, of reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them. * In a world, the opinions of which are drawn from outside shows, many things may be paradoxicalt (that... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1836 - 328 pages
...by his reply. "A conquest over a single passion," says Coleridge, will teach us more of thought, and more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the...reflection, than a year's study in the schools without it." The purifying of the heart naturally tends to strengthen the intellect, and fit it for the reception... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1836 - 332 pages
...by his reply. "A conquest over a single passion," says Coleridge, will teach us more of thought, and more effectually awaken the faculty, and form the...reflection, than a year's study in the schools without it." The purifying of the heart naturally tends to strengthen the intellect, and fit it for the reception... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...fortitude, and enables us to triumph without extravagance, and to suffer without dejection. ROBT. HALL. AN hour of solitude passed in sincere and earnest...reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them. — Ibid. TRUTH PARADOXICAL. IN a World, the opinions of which are drawn from outside shows, many things... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1839 - 1066 pages
...subtle bosom sin,' will teach more of thought, will more effectually awaken the faculty, and i'urm the habit of reflection, than a year's study in the schools without them."* » Coleridge. MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOLS. We make the following extract from an address, recently delivered... | |
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