| 1896 - 858 páginas
...neglect, or take for granted." " Then do you mean to say," broke in the Philosopher, " that, whereas none of us ' by taking thought, can add one cubit to his stature,' we can add a good deal to our moral, spiritual, or intellectual stature by this same process of taking... | |
| John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1868 - 810 páginas
...one morning, taking the gauge of his inches. " You are thinking too much about it, Davy," said he ; " which of us by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature ? " And Davy neglected to measure himself thereafter. One day a stranger came to see Mr. Screwum, the... | |
| 1874 - 584 páginas
...Our time is always ready, but his time may not be yet. From all which it is a painful path. Besides, which of us by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature ? Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, &c., he maketh poor and maketh rich. He putteth... | |
| 1875 - 780 páginas
...journals as in nature, the law of true growth demands an observance of certain essential conditions. Which of us, "by taking thought, can add one cubit to his stature ?" Money, enterprise, ecouomy, talent, either alone or all together, cannot make a powerful Masonic... | |
| American Institute of Electrical Engineers - 1903 - 594 páginas
...he was stricken with awe, for, as he said, while we have it on the authority of the Master that none of us by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature, Alexander Graham Bell by taking thought had added not merely a cubit but hundreds of miles to the length... | |
| American Institute of Electrical Engineers - 1903 - 632 páginas
...he was stricken with awe, for, as he said, while we have it on the authority of the Master that none of us by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature, Alexander Graham Bell by taking thought had added not merely a cubit but hundreds of miles to the length... | |
| James Hillman - 1997 - 326 páginas
...warned that insight for its own sake is wrong: "One day we shall be completely entangled in it." And which of us by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature? Psyche joined with reflection is a union of sames without the tension of opposites; psyche is itself... | |
| |