 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 610 pages
...regulate the * Vel. »., p. 4>T f Vd. Y.7p.486. J Vel, T, f7493. § Vol.v., p. 260. H Vol. v., p. 339. measure of all things, as well as to determine the...end, pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty or skill besides, needs to derive direction from this ; they are all quite... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1831 - 590 pages
...shall best conduce to one great end. It being the province of wisdom to preside, it sits as umpire on every difficulty, and so gives the final direction...end, pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty or skill besides needs to derive direction from this ; they are all quite... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 734 pages
...shall best conduce to one great end. It being the province of wisdom to preside, it sits as umpire on every difficulty, and so gives the final direction...end, pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty or skill besides needs to derive direction from this ; they are all quite... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pages
...shall best conduce to one great end. It being the province of wisdom to preside, it sits as umpire on every difficulty, and so gives the final direction...end, pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty or skill besides needs to derive direction from this ; they are all quite... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 592 pages
...every difficulty, and so gives the final direction and control to all the powers of our nature. Hence k is entitled to be considered as the top and summit...end, pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty or skill besides needs to derive direction from this ; they are all quite... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 634 pages
...Vol. v., p. 471. f Vol. v., p. 486. J vol. v., p. 493. § .Vol.v., p. 260. || Vol. v., p. 339. measure measure of all things, as well as to determine the...end, pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty or skill besides, needs to derive direction from this ; they are all quite... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 708 pages
...shall best conduce to one great end. It being the province of wisdom to preside, it sits as umpire on every difficulty, and so gives the final direction...end, pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty or skill besides needs to derive direction from this ; they are all quite... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 698 pages
...shall best conduce to one great end. It being the province of wisdom to preside, it sits as umpire on every difficulty, and so gives the final direction...end, pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty or skill besides needs to derive direction from this ; they are all quite... | |
 | Peter Mere Latham - Clinical medicine - 1836 - 344 pages
...but ought not to be confounded with it. Though wisdom necessarily presupposes knowledge, and it is impossible to exercise it in things of which we are...and truth, spoke another of congenial mind upon the same high subject : — " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge... | |
 | 1847 - 412 pages
...receive ; in short, to regulate the measure of all things, as well as to determine the end, and to provide the means of obtaining the end pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty of skill, besides, needs to derive direction from this : they are all incapable... | |
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... control to all the powers of our nature. Hence it is entitled to be considered as the top and summit of perfection. It belongs to wisdom to determine when to act and when to cease ; when to reveal, and when to conceal a matter ; when to speak, and... 
