 | History - 1793 - 532 pages
...my condud be uncandidly imputed to rafhnefs or er.thufiafm, but to a ferious, deliberate conviction that I am purfuing the path of duty, and to a fincere dclire of being made an inilrument of more extcnfive ufefulnefs to my fellow-creatures than could be... | |
 | 1789 - 504 pages
...my conduct be uncandidly imputed to rajhnefi or enthujiafm, but to a ferious, deliberate conriftion that I am purfuing the path of duty, and to a fincere...fellow-creatures than could be expected in the narrower circle of 3 retired life.' The reft of the volume confifts of tables afcertaining the number of criminals in... | |
 | English literature - 1790 - 694 pages
...raßatfs or entkafiefm, but to a ferinas, ¿tlitt'iiir convicción that I am purfuing the pathofrfu//; and to a fincere defire of being made an inftrument...extenfive ufefulnefs to my fellow-creatures than could be expeiled in the narrower circle of a retired lite." The Fhifafophical Shnemnker. [From Mammuth; or,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1793 - 544 pages
...ferious, deliberate conviftion that I am purfuing the path of duty, and to a fmcere defire of being jmade an inftrument of more extenfive ufefulnefs to my fellow-creatures than could be expefted in the narrower circle of a retired life." To a man who holds fuch language, what elfe can... | |
 | 1798 - 432 pages
...uncandidly imputed to rafhnefs or enthunafin, but to a ferious deliberate conviction that I am purfuingMif path of duty, and to a fincere defire of being made an inftrument of more extenfive ufefulnefs to my fellow ereatures than could be expected in the narrower circle of retired life." From this journey,... | |
 | Hannah Adams - Apologetics - 1804 - 398 pages
...my conduct be uncandidly imputed to rafhnefs or enthufiafm, but to a ferious, deliberate conviction, that I am purfuing the path of duty ; and to a fincere...defire of being made an inftrument of more extenfive yfefulnefsto my fellow creatures, than could be expected in the narrow circle of retired life." This... | |
 | B. Lambert - London (England) - 1806 - 624 pages
...the path of duty, and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures than could be expected in the narrower circle of my retired We»" Accordingly, in the summer of l?89t he set out on this hazardous enterptize ; the... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
..."the path of duty, and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow*creatures than could -be expected in the narrower circle of a retired life." •: Accordingly to the great concern of his friends, he set out in »uhifrier 1789 on thi» hazardous... | |
 | Biography - 1814 - 538 pages
...the path of duty; ~»nd to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures, than could be expected in the narrower circle of a retired lii'e." He did actually fall a sacrifice to this design ; for in visiting a sick patient at Cherson,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...the path of duty, and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures than could be expected in the narrower circle of a retired life." These forebodings of his fate were realised. John Howard terminated his glorious career in the performance... | |
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... Should it please God to cut off my life in the prosecution of this design, let not my conduct be uncandidly imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to a serious, deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty, and to a sincere desire of... 
