 | Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...straying In the path of wrong, — When she breathes the loud decrying, As no Cbristian ought, — THE modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consulti his dignity by doing it. Charity keeps gently sighing, THK heart, too often, like the cement... | |
 | David Thomas - 1884 - 468 pages
...MAN ACCORDING AS HIS WORK SHALL BE." — Revelation xxiL 12. " THE modern majesty," says Carlyle, " consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest...ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it." But this is true of all times — man doing his right work, to the best of his ability, with the highest... | |
 | Henry Griffin Parrish - 1863 - 338 pages
...admirer of his countryman Carlyle, and one would think had adopted the following words as his motto, "The modern majesty consists in work, what a man can do...ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it." Without doubt Mr. Alexander has genius, if, as Coleridge has it, it is "the faculty of growth;" the... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 pages
...circumstances, we should suspect his motive, especially if he be lavish in his promises of secrecy. MODERN majesty consists in work. What a man can do...ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. THE heart too often, like the cement of the ancient Romans, acquires hardness by time. THE hand which... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1871 - 442 pages
...palace a Ma. xxv. 14. о La. xix. 18. cLu. xii. 36-38; He. iii. 6 ; Ac. ix. 28 ; 1 Co. iv. 1, 2. " The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do...and he always consults his dignity by doing it."— Carlyle. MARK. [Cap. xiv. 1—3. AD 28. à This is used as an argument for Mark's Horn, origin (seeintro.).... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1874 - 318 pages
...' Aa there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some good in him.' 'The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do...ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.' THAT satisfaction which unregenerate man derives from having given free indulgence to his evil passions,... | |
 | Thomas Briggs (of Richmond, Surrey.) - 1877 - 276 pages
...traffic on the railways — the result of these great reforms. 194 i95 CHAPTER XVII. WORK AND WAGES. 1 ' MODERN majesty consists in work. What a man can do...ornament. and he always consults his dignity by doing it." " The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other... | |
 | William Jones (theologian.) - 1879 - 516 pages
...there is something of divineness. Labour, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven." Again — " The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do...ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it." The day is the season for work. Our Lord recognised this fact in His pregnant utterance, " I must work... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1880 - 598 pages
...August $iA, 1880. MEMOIRS AND OBITUARIES. JOHN GUARD, BIBLE CHRISTIAN MINISTER. CARLYLE says, " The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do...greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity in doing it." Work is essential to religion. The first, the constant duty we owe ourselves, is to "... | |
 | 1881 - 976 pages
...good to work for God. It is better to work constantly. If of human toil it has been well said that "modern majesty consists in work; what a man can do...ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it;" how much more does it apply to work for God ! The greatest honour conferred on men is, to be " labourers... | |
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The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. 
