 | New Church gen. confer - 1841 - 572 Seiten
...of acting on, determining, and forming ourselves. We have the power not only of tracing our thoughts but of guiding and impelling them ; not only of watching our passions but of controlling them. We can stay or change the current of thought ; we can concentrate the intellect on objects which we... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1841 - 424 Seiten
...possible, not only because we can enter into and search ourselves. We have a still nobler power, that of acting on, determining and forming ourselves. This is a fearful as well as glorious- endowment, fb"T "iris the ground of human responsibility. We have the power not only of tracing our powers, but... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 686 Seiten
...possible not only because wo can enter into and search ourselves. We have a still nobler power, that of acting on, determining and forming ourselves. This...controlling them ; not only of seeing our faculties grew, but of applying to them means and l influences to aid their growth. We can stay or change the... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1855 - 498 Seiten
...possible, not only because .we can enter into and search ourselves. We have a still nobler -y power, that of acting on, determining and forming ourselves. This...guiding and impelling them ; not only of watching our pasv sions, but of controlling them ; not only of seeing our faculties grow, but of applying to them... | |
 | 1866 - 490 Seiten
...regulated by forethought and plan, with prevision and purpose. " We have the ability not only of training our powers, but of guiding and impelling them; not...to them means and influences to aid their growth."* To do this with personal foresight and endeavour, havinga fixed purpose toachieve, a definite plan... | |
 | 1870 - 956 Seiten
...possible not only because we can enter into and search ourselves. We have still a nobler power, that of acting on, determining, and forming ourselves....to them means and influences to aid their growth. " Of all the discoveries which men need to make," says Dr. Channing ''the most important at the present... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1870 - 496 Seiten
...only because we can enter into and search ourselves, but because we have a still nobler power, that of acting on, determining, and forming ourselves....human responsibility., We have the power not only or tracing our powers, but of guiding and impelling them ; not only of watching our passions, but of... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1870 - 764 Seiten
...possible, not only because we can enter into and search ourselves. We have a still nobler power, that of acting on, determining, and forming ourselves....ground of human responsibility. We have the power not onlyof tracing our powers, but of guiding and impelling them ; not only of watching our passions, but... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1875 - 948 Seiten
...possible, not only because we can enter into and search ourselves. We have a still nobler power, that of acting on. determining, and forming ourselves....endowment, for it is the ground of human responsibility. We nave the power not only of tracing our powers, but of guiding and impelling them : not only of watching... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1876 - 486 Seiten
...only because we can enter into and search ourselves, but because we have a still nobler power, that of acting on, determining, and forming ourselves....to them means and influences to aid their growth. 3. We can stay or change the current of thought. We can concentrate the intellect on objects which... | |
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But self-culture is possible, not only because we can enter into and search ourselves. We have a still nobler power, that of acting on, determining, and forming ourselves. This is a fearful as well as glorious endowment, for it is the ground of human... 
