 | 1829 - 566 sider
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed : it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any time despaired of the... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 sider
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed; it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any lime despaired of the... | |
 | 1835 - 916 sider
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed ; it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than lo boasl of our attainmenls. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 468 sider
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed : it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any time despaired of the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 sider
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, le*t us not be blamed : it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any time despaired of the... | |
 | William Dearden - 1844 - 284 sider
...features ; but in thus delineating, and holding up these to view, I hope no one will blame me ; for, as a wise man well observes, " it is in general more...up our defects than to boast of our attainments." I do not expect, nor have I tried, to please all ; but if I succeed in gaining a ' fit audience though... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1845 - 624 sider
...features ; but, in thus delineating and holding up these to view, I hope no one will blame me — for, as a wise man well observes, 'it is in general more...writing a whole book, (and not a small one,) about the evila and vices which attend society in its progress towards civilization, and leaving it to be inferred,... | |
 | 1845 - 604 sider
...and holding up these to view, I hope no one will blame me — for, as a wise man well observée, ' it is in general more profitable to reckon up our...to what the " wise man" Bays being a good rule of individua! conduct ; but it is no justification for a man of genius, education, and taste, writing... | |
 | 1852 - 590 sider
...bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed: it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects, than to boast of our attainments. Neither, with all these evils more or less clearly before us, have we at any lime despaired of the... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1856 - 500 sider
...nothing that he says absolutely belies." " The picture I have drawn of commerce," says Mr. Dearden, " exhibits, I am aware, its harsher features ; but,...reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. 7 " There can be no doubt as to what the "wise man" says being a good rule of individual conduct; but... | |
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... bright lights as well as gloomy shadows. If we here dwell chiefly on the latter, let us not be blamed : it is in general more profitable to reckon up our defects than to boast of our attainments. 
