 I could trace some other influences in the change. All I mean is, I was never conscious of a struggle, nor registered a vow, nor seemingly had anything personally to do with the matter. I came about like a well-handled ship. There stood at the wheel that...  letters and miscellanies - Seite 615von robert louis stevenson - 1902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 700 Seiten
...and lived and profited by that humour. I have no idea why I ceased to be so, yet I scarce believe I have the power to return to it; it is a change of...negative virtues may be sacrificed In the cultivation. 633 INDEX TO THE THISTLE EDITION COMPILED BY FRANCIS D. TANDY ORDER OF THE VOLUMES i. Tiir. NEW ARABIA*... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 248 Seiten
...that of Balzac ; and some very noble remarks by the latter in a pretty bad book, the Cousine Bctte. I dare say I could trace some other influences in...stood at the wheel that unknown steersman whom we call God.'2 This may be assigned to the time immediately before his retirement from engineering ; but it... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 290 Seiten
...Balzac; and some very noble remarks by the latter in a pretty bad book, the Cousine Bette. I daresay I could trace some other influences in the change....stood at the wheel that unknown steersman whom we call God."1 This may be assigned to the time immediately before his retirement from engineering; but it... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 280 Seiten
...Balzac; and some very noble remarks by the latter in a pretty bad book, the Cousine Bette. l daresay I could trace some other influences in the change....stood at the wheel that unknown steersman whom we call God."1 This may be assigned to the time immediately before his retirement from engineering; but it... | |
 | James Meeker Ludlow - 1902 - 346 Seiten
...business it was to strive and persevere, it seems to me as though all had been done by someone else. . . I came about like a well-handled ship. There stood...the wheel that Unknown Steersman whom we call God." Most men of decided character have had some phase of this faith in the Over-ruling and In-ruling Power.... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 Seiten
...so did that of Balzac ; and some very noble remarks by the latter in a pretty bad book, the Cousins. Bette. I dare say I could trace some other influences...the wheel that unknown steersman whom we call God." 220. played the sedulous ape to, diligently imitated. Hazlitt, a leading English prose writer of the... | |
 | McGill University - 1905 - 418 Seiten
...one whose business was to strive and persevere, it seems as though it had been done by someone else. I came about like a well-handled ship. There stood...the wheel that unknown steersman whom we call God." The inherent strength and sweetness of his nature appeared. The Shorter Catechist in the spiritual,... | |
 | Bradford Torrey - 1906 - 366 Seiten
...anything personally to do with the matter." "I came about like a well-handled ship," he concludes. "There stood at the wheel that unknown steersman whom we call God." In his twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth year, at all events, he was really getting under way, though for... | |
 | Henry Sloane Coffin - 1907 - 298 Seiten
...was to strive and persevere, it seems to me as though all that had been done by some one else. ... I was never conscious of a struggle, nor registered...the wheel that unknown steersman whom we call God." How striking it is in looking back over a stretch of life to see the way in which we have been led,... | |
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