 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - Počet stránok 446
...that he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors. There are instances to the contrary; but, generally speaking, the life of all truly great men has been a life of intense and incessant labour. They have commonly past the first half of life in the gross darkness of indigent humility,... | |
 | 1850 - Počet stránok 594
...they have been superior to other men, is, that they have taken more pains than other men.1 . . . * Generally speaking, the life of all truly great men...mistaken, contemned, by weaker men; thinking while others rioted, feeling something within them that tnld them they should not alwavs be kept down among the... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - Počet stránok 474
...he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors. There are instances to the contrary ; but, generally speaking, the life of all truly great men has been a life of intense and incessant labour. They have commonly past the first half of life in the gross darkness of indigent humility,... | |
 | 1850 - Počet stránok 600
...moro pains than other men.' . . . ь Generally speaking, the life of all truly great men hue been ц life of intense and incessant labor. They have commonly passed the first half of life in (he gross darkness of indigent humility ; overlooked, mistaken, contemned, by weaker men; thinking... | |
 | 1852 - Počet stránok 374
...preserving the bulk and value of the pile is by constantly adding to it." —p. 96. And again : — " Generally speaking, the life of all truly great men has been a life of intense and incessant labour. They have commonly passed the first half of life in the gross darkness of indigent humility,... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - Počet stránok 296
...he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors. There are instances to the contrary ; but, generally speaking, the life of all truly great men has been a life of intense and incessant labour. They have commonly passed the first half of life in the gross darkness of indigent humility... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1854 - Počet stránok 428
...he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors. There are instances to the contrary ; but, generally speaking, the life of all truly great men has been a life of intense and incessant labour." — Rev. Sydney Smith's Moral Philosophy. " If then we consider the perpetual conflicts of... | |
 | 1855 - Počet stránok 590
...he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors. There are instances to the contrary ; but, generally speaking, the life of all truly great men has been a life of intense and incessant labour. They have commonly passed the first half of life in the gross darkness of IMMENSE INTELLIGENCE... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - Počet stránok 330
...necessary to remain ignorant. But the greatest natural genius cannot subsist on his own stock. And generally speaking, the life of all truly great men has been a life of intense and incessant labor Yes he is a miracle of genius because he is a miracle of labor; because instead of trusting to the... | |
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They have commonly passed the first half of life in the gross darkness of indigent humility,— overlooked, mistaken, contemned, by weaker men,— thinking, while others slept, reading while others rioted, feeling something within that told them they... 
