 | 1843 - 636 páginas
...and mottoes. A good motto for a cake is more respectable than a villanous epic poem in twelve books. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;...will be ten thousand times worse than nothing." In this branch of study none have ever transcended William Jones. " In Greek and Roman literature, his... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 páginas
...mottoes: a good motto for a twelfth-cake is more respectable than a villanous epic poem in twelve books. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed...you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. If black and white men live together, the consequence is, that, unless great care be taken, they quarrel... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 páginas
...mottoes ; a good motto for a twelfth-cake is more respectable than a villanous epic poem in twelve books. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed...you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. USES OF WIT. IF black and white men live together, die consequence is, that, unless great care be taken,... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1860 - 64 páginas
...is more respectable than a villanous epic poem in twelve books. Be what Nature intended you to be, and you will succeed ; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing," * — which last is rather strongly stated. And to the same effect that thoughtful writer, Henry Taylor,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - 478 páginas
...mottoes; a good motto for a twelfth-cake is more respectable than a villanous epic poem in twelve books. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;...you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. USES OF WIT. IF black and white men live together, the consequence is, that, unless great care be taken,... | |
 | P. Friedrich - 1870 - 216 páginas
...twelfth-cake is more respectable than a villanous epic poem in twelve books. Be what nature intended you7 for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing .... There is a strong disposition in men of opposite mind's* to despise each other. A grave man cannot... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 páginas
...to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. — RW EMERSON. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed...you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. —SYDNEY SMITH. I cannot repeat too often that no man struggles perpetually and victoriously against... | |
 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 páginas
...Hath overta'en mine act. Shakespeare. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed ; be any anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. Sydney Smith. SIN. As you are fearful to commit great sins ; so be careful to avoid small ones. He... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 376 páginas
...to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. — RW EMERSON. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed...you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. — SYDNEY SMITH. I cannot repeat too often that no man struggles perpetually and victoriously against... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 386 páginas
...to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. — RW EMERSON. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed...you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. — SYDNEY SMITH. I cannot repeat too often that no man struggles perpetually and victoriously against... | |
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Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed ; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. 
