... undermining health, temper, goodness, nay, even the quiet of conscience, and conjuring up all the spirits of darkness: so does the corroding rust eat into the steel-plate, and deface its clear mirror with a tracery of disordered caricatures. I once... The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys - Page 159by Fredrika Bremer - 1843Full view - About this book
| Harper & Brothers - 1843 - 300 pages
...tracery of disordered caricatures. I once read these words of that many-sided thinker, Steffan : " He who has no employment to which he gives himself...earnestness, which he does not love as much as himself, has not discovered the true ground on which Christianity brings forth fruit. Such an occupation becomes... | |
| Unitarianism - 1843 - 418 pages
...The episode of Evelina's history is a full and good lesson, teaching the spirit of this quotation. " He who has no employment to which he gives himself...earnestness, which he does not love as much as himself, has not discovered the true ground on which Christianity brings forth fruit." The attachments of Sara... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - Sweden - 1844 - 278 pages
...tracery of disordered caricatures. I once read these words of that many-sided thinker, Steflan : " He who has no employment to which he gives himself...earnestness, which he does not love as much as himself, has not discovered the true ground on which Christianity brings forth fruit. Such an occupation becomes... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - Sweden - 1844 - 1066 pages
...caricatures. I once read these words of that many-sided thinker, StefTan : " He who has no employment .o which he gives himself with true earnestness, which he does not love as much as himself, has not discovered the true ground on which Chris-ianity brings forth fruit. Such an occupation Ȏcornes... | |
| Arts - 1854 - 394 pages
...rust eat into the steel plate, and deface its clear mirror with a tracery of disordered caricatures. " He who has no employment to which he gives himself...earnestness, which he does not love as much as himself, has not discovered the true ground on which Christianity brings forth fruit. — So says a very sensible... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - 1892 - 560 pages
...labour, who had buried his talent in the earth, as was the hereditary custom of the circle in whish I lived. The flower yields odour and delight to man,...Christianity even here brings forth fruit. Such an occupatiou becomes a quiet and consecrated temple in all hours of afflic-tion, into which the Saviour... | |
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