Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18., chapter 3, The marvellous influence.

Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help

Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:

This text is part of:

19th-Century American

View text chunked by:

chapter : section : page
chapter : page

The marvellous influence.

‘But gentlemen,’ he added, ‘we have not yet attained to the secret of the wonderful power, the magical spell—the strange, marvellous influence exerted by that life which this day we study. Men are not great simply nor especially by the intellect, but through the heart. Character is of more value than genius, and what I wish to observe is this, that the military career of our dead chieftain is the canvas on which, from the inner life as from a lantern, is thrown a rarer combination of graces and spiritual excellences than is witnessed in the history of one man in a thousand.’

Richmond, VA. 1890.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar:

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

The marvellous influence.

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.

This text is part of:

View text chunked by:

Table of Contents:

The marvellous influence.

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18.
Reverend J. William Jones, Ed.