 | John Bristed - 1811 - 554 sider
...direct or indirect, to select the man with a view to the duty, or to accommodate the one to the other. I do not hesitate to say, that the road to eminence...power from obscure condition ought not to be made too cosy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought to pass... | |
 | John Bristed - 1811 - 556 sider
...direct or indirect, to select the man with a view to the duty, or to accommodate the one to the other. I do not hesitate to say, that the road to eminence-...power from obscure condition ought not to be made loo easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought... | |
 | 1821 - 362 sider
...tendency, direct or indirect, to fit the man to the duty. I do not hesitate to say, that the road tu eminence and power from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, jior a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought to pass through... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 sider
...particular that I knovr of wherein self-knowledge more eminently consists, than it does in thii. tfcuon. The road to eminence and power from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, mor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare ihings, it ought to pass through... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 sider
...direct or indirect, to select the man with a view to the duly, or to accommodate the one to the other. I do no@A@ tbrough some sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence. Jf it be opened... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 sider
...our wisest legislator, from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor too much a thing of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought to pass through ?ome sort of probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1849 - 496 sider
...instructive than interesting. " The road to eminence and power," it has been truly and eloquently said, " ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much...pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered too, that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 sider
...direct or indirect, to select the man with a view to the duty, or to accommodate the one to the other. I do not hesitate to say, that the road to eminence...probation. The temple of honour ought to be seated on an 1 Ecclesiasticus, chap, xxxviii. ver. 24, 25. " The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 sider
...terror and pity ; our weak, unthinking pride is humbled under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. The road to eminence and power, from obscure condition,...ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of coarse. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opeced through virtue, let... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 sider
...terror and pity ; our weak, unthinking pride is humbled under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. The road to eminence and power, from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a tiling too much of course. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through... | |
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I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. 
