 | John Bartlett - 1903 - Počet stránok 1186
...sqnare hole, the ohlong into the triangnlar, and a sqnare person has sqneexed himself into the ronnd hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the...we can say they were almost made for each other.* Sketches cf Moral Philosophy. • 1 Lord Whnrncliffe rays, " The well-known sentence, almost a proverh,... | |
 | 1905 - Počet stránok 330
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting those parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular; while the square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. — SIDNEY SMITH. People do not readily... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1910 - Počet stránok 302
...life by holes in a table, some round, some square, some oblong, and persons by bits of wood of like shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular...into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, while the square person has squeezed himself into the round hole." But meditation, too, is an essential... | |
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - 1914 - Počet stránok 1514
...shall generally find that the triangular person got into the square hole, the oblong into the tri•, and a square person has squeezed himself into the...exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.8 Stetchet cf Moral Philosophy. 1 Lord Wharncliffe says, " The well-known sentence, almost a... | |
 | Arthur Lee - 1917 - Počet stránok 340
...shapes,—some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong,—and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into a round hole. 9. No one minds what Jeffrey says—it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak... | |
 | 1919 - Počet stránok 552
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong, — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...we can say they were almost made for each other." Pre-vocational education should, of course, enable each peg to find the right hole. In the past there... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - Počet stránok 1422
...holes in it. and the square men have got into the round holes. SYDNEY SMITH, as quoted in Punch. 7 come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now SYDNEY SMITH — Sketches of Moral Philosophy. 8 Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most... | |
 | John Earle Uhler - 1926 - Počet stránok 200
...circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...that we can say they were almost made for each other. 45. Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured in the flight of years, And all that... | |
 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - 1995 - Počet stránok 544
...shapes—some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong—and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...we can say they were almost made for each other." Sydney Smith (1771—1845), English; canon of St. Paul's, London (from 1831); a founder of the Edinburgh... | |
 | Liz McGregor - 2005 - Počet stránok 464
...some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong— and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find...office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so easily that we can say they were almost made for each other.* W. Irving points out that "Your true... | |
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If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes — some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong — and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find... 
