| Hannah Webster Foster - 1855 - 306 sider
...am sensible that the power is in my hands ; but the disposition (shall I confess it ?) is wanting. " I know the right, and I approve it too ; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue." I have just received a card from Major Sanford, inviting me to ride this afternoon. At first I thought... | |
| Hannah Webster Foster - 1855 - 318 sider
...am sensible that the power is in my hands ; but the disposition (shall I confess it ?) is wanting. " I know the right, and I approve it too; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue." I have just received a card from Major Sanford, inviting me to ride this afternoon. At first I thought... | |
| Hannah Webster Foster - 1855 - 304 sider
...am sensible that the power is in my hands; but the disposition (shall I confess it?) is wanting. " I know the right; and I approve it too; I know the wrong, and yet-the wrong pursue." I have just received a card from Major Sanford, inviting me to ride this afternoon.... | |
| Thomas Abbot Merrill - 1860 - 76 sider
...find a Satyrus or a Demosthenes! Both teachers and pupils commonly take the course of one who said, " I know the right and I approve it too, I know the wrong and yet the wrong pursue." • The most persevering effort and much practice, are ordinarily necessary to triumphant success.... | |
| William Nutting, D. H. Nutting - 1912 - 104 sider
...may know what is right, but do what is wrong; or in the words of the poet, may be compelled to say "I know the right, and I approve it too, I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue." To save this most dreadful condition of voluntarily and deliberately doing what we know to be wrong,... | |
| William Brown, William H. Brown, Hannah Foster - 1970 - 278 sider
...I am sensible that the power is in my hands; but the disposition (shall I confess it?) is wanting. I know the right, and I approve it too; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. I have just received a card from Major Sanford, inviting me to ride this afternoon At first I thought... | |
| James E. Kibler - 1998 - 478 sider
...will here insert, you will be compelled to draw the conclusion that 1 am not: I know the right, and approve it too; I know the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. So you see, without an open declaration from me that I am not as economical as old Jos. Hill. However,... | |
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