 | John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...calm and pleasing solitariness,' in which he so much delighted, was destined to be broken, and, ' put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,1 the poet and the scholar was ere long to ' embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1826 - 538 pages
...pleasing solitariness,' where, ' fed with cheerful and confident thoughts,' they may learn to behold ' the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.' Though we have been led into a longer train of remarks, than we had intended, we are not willing, while... | |
 | United States - 1827 - 634 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. * * * But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 pages
...Prose Works, to which all our references are made. in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. • • * But were it the meanest under-service, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Christian literature, English - 1828 - 60 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. * * * But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.***But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were... | |
 | 1829 - 440 pages
...will see. more clearly and feel more deeply, that there is joy, deep, absorbing, pangless joy, in ' beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.' New principles will be called out. He will perceive the vastness of their attainments, and viewing... | |
 | 1829 - 434 pages
...will see more clearly and feel more deeply, that there is joy, deep, absorbing, pangless joy, in ' beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.' New principles will be called out. He will perceive the vastness of their attainments, and viewing... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 622 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. * * * But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. * * * But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad... | |
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I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of... 
