 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Great Plains - 1892 - 322 pages
...forbid it should be man the erected, the reasoner, the wise in his own eyes—God forbid it should be man that wearies in well-doing that despairs of unrewarded...with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain. xn. A CHRISTMAS SERMON. BY the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months;*... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotations, Scottish - 1895 - 238 pages
...forbid it should be man the erected, the reasoner, the wise in his own eyes — God forbid it should be man that wearies in welldoing, that despairs of unrewarded...unconquerable constancy : surely not all in vain. T FIND I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 pages
...forbid it should be man the erected, the reasoner, the wise in his own eyes — God forbid it should be man that wearies in well-doing, that despairs of unrewarded...with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain. XII A CHRISTMAS SERMON BY the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months;... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 452 pages
...297 it should be man the erected, the reasoner, the wise in his own eyes — God forbid it should be man that wearies in well-doing, that despairs of unrewarded...unconquerable constancy : Surely not all in vain. ,98 XII. A CHRISTMAS SERMON BY the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Voyages and travels - 1895 - 452 pages
...297 it should be man the erected, the reasoner, the wise in his own eyes — God forbid it should be man that wearies in well-doing, that despairs of unrewarded...unconquerable constancy : Surely not all in vain. XII. A CHRISTMAS SERMON BY the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months;1... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 452 pages
...forbid it should be man the erected, the reasoner, the wise in his own eyes — God forbid it should be man that wearies in well-doing, that despairs of unrewarded...unconquerable constancy : Surely not all in vain. 198 XII. A CHRISTMAS SERMON BY the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months;1... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 630 pages
...forbid it should be man the erected, the reasoner, the wise in his own eyes — God forbid it should be man that wearies in well-doing, that despairs of unrewarded...with unconquerable constancy: Surely not all in vain. XII A CHRISTMAS SERMON BY the time this paper appears, I shall have been talking for twelve months;... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...forbid it should be man the erected, the reasoner, the wise in his own eyes—God forbid it should be man that wearies in welldoing, that despairs of unrewarded...with unconquerable constancy: surely not all in vain. •^ It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it... | |
 | Alice Brown - 1895 - 66 pages
...breaking every instant into rotting death. Then having made that most tragic avowal, he can add: " Let it be enough for faith that the whole creation...unconquerable constancy; surely not all in vain." It is a shallow hopefulness that would escape the vision of decay. "If life be hard for such resolute... | |
 | Richard Burton - English literature - 1898 - 406 pages
...wise in his own eyes," should show the white feather and not strive on with all other sentient life. " Let it be enough for faith that the whole creation...unconquerable constancy ; surely, not all in vain." It is not skill or the revamping of the traditional that produces essays like these, albeit the technique... | |
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And as we dwell, we living things, in our isle of terror and under the imminent hand of death, God forbid it should be man the erected, the reasoner, the wise in his own eyes — God forbid it should be man that wearies in well-doing, that despairs of... 
