 A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery.  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 43geredigeerd door - 1841Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Adlai Ewing Stevenson - 1909 - 442 pagina’s
...There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent...take to ourselves the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909
...responsibility, there is no longer the possibility of virtue. In the massive language of Mr. Webster, "a sense of duty pursues us ever; it is omnipresent, like the Deity." If the sense of it be within the soul, there is the rejection of the Divine control ; and the nation slides... | |
 | Alvin Victor Sellers - 1917
...There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent,...take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness... | |
 | Parley Paul Womer - 1910 - 180 pagina’s
...the Deity. If we take to ourselves wings of the morning and flee to the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us for our happiness or misery. If we say that darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are... | |
 | Cleland Boyd McAfee - 1912 - 286 pagina’s
...spoke for the English-speaking races, and found his phrases in the Bible, when he said that this sense "pursues us ever. It is omnipresent like the Deity....take to ourselves the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us for our happiness... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, John Baker Opdycke - 1913 - 593 pagina’s
...There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from, but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent,...take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness... | |
 | John Calvin Metcalf - 1914 - 415 pagina’s
...harm you. There is no evil that we cannot face or fly from but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent...take to ourselves the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1917
...There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from — but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent,...take to ourselves the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness,... | |
 | David Otis Mears - 1916 - 332 pagina’s
...twelfth verses) in his justly celebrated plea in the case of the murder of Captain Joseph White : " A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent...take to ourselves the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1917
...There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from — but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent,...take to ourselves the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness,... | |
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