 There is, as the Apostle has remarked, a way to strength through weakness. " Let me then be the most feeble creature alive, as long as that feebleness serves to invigorate the energies of my rational and immortal spirit ; as long as in that obscurity...  Memoirs of Christina, Queen of Sweden - Page 2by Henry Woodhead - 1863Full view - About this book
 | 1889 - 558 pages
...wretched to be blind as it is not to be capable of enduring blindness. Let me be the most feeble creator* alive as long as that feebleness serves to invigorate the energies of my rational and immortal spirit; so long as in that obscurity in which I am enveloped the light of the divine presence more clearly... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - American literature - 1897 - 592 pages
...liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth. How many things are there, besides, which I would not willingly see ! how many which I must see, against my will ! aijd how few which I feel any anxiety to see ! There is, as the apostle has remarked, a way to strength... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1899 - 520 pages
...Ruskin. It is not so wretched to be blind as it is not to be capable of enduring blindness. Let me be the most feeble creature alive as long as that feebleness serves to invigorate the energies oi my rational and immortal spirit ; so long as in that obscurity in which I am enveloped the light... | |
 | James Holly Hanford - 1926 - 334 pages
...at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth. How many things are there besides which I would not willingly see ; how many...see ! There is, as the apostle has remarked, a way of strength through weakness. Let me then be the most feeble creature alive, as long as that feebleness... | |
 | Christian Edzard Kreipe - English philology - 1926 - 92 pages
...and providence of God" (Letter XV to Leonard Phüaras, the Athenian, 1654) oder PW I, 239 "Lei nie then be the most feeble creature alive, as long as...feebleness serves to invigorate the energies of my rational aud immortal spirit ; as long as in that obscurity, in which I am enveloped, the light of the divine... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 316 pages
...motto "My strength is made perfect in weakness." 18 Similarly in his Second Defense, Milton writes, "There is, as the apostle has remarked, a way to strength...weakness. Let me then be the most feeble creature alive . . . then, in proportion as I am weak, I shall be invincibly strong, and in proportion as I am blind,... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 338 pages
...me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and staJjUity^fjvJrtu^^ndoftrath. How many things are there besides which I would not willingly see; how many...anxiety to see ! There is, as the apostle has remarked, ajway to strength through weakness^ Let me then be the mosFfeeble creature alive, as long as that feebleness... | |
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