A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient SourcesAnna Lydia Ward |
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... Education . The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show . 3 Garfield : Oration on Miss Booth . The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators . 4 Gibbon : Decline and ...
... Education . The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show . 3 Garfield : Oration on Miss Booth . The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators . 4 Gibbon : Decline and ...
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... education like adversity . 59 Colton : Lacon . Disraeli ( Earl of Beaconsfield ) : Endymion . Ch . 61 . Prosperity is a great teacher ; adversity is a greater . 60 Hazlitt : Sketches and Essays . of Lords . On the Conversation In the ...
... education like adversity . 59 Colton : Lacon . Disraeli ( Earl of Beaconsfield ) : Endymion . Ch . 61 . Prosperity is a great teacher ; adversity is a greater . 60 Hazlitt : Sketches and Essays . of Lords . On the Conversation In the ...
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... Education of an Orator . Bk . i . Ch . 2 , Sec . 22. ( Watson , Translator . ) It is not position , but mind , that I want . 119 Mme . Roland : To Her Father when rejecting a Suitor . Which dreams , indeed , are ambition ; for the very ...
... Education of an Orator . Bk . i . Ch . 2 , Sec . 22. ( Watson , Translator . ) It is not position , but mind , that I want . 119 Mme . Roland : To Her Father when rejecting a Suitor . Which dreams , indeed , are ambition ; for the very ...
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... Education . 280 ASSURANCE . God Almighty cannot prevent me from winning a victory to - day . 281 Gen. Joseph Hooker : Letter to President Abraham Lincoln , the day previous to the fight at Chan- cellorsville . ATHEISTS . Though a man ...
... Education . 280 ASSURANCE . God Almighty cannot prevent me from winning a victory to - day . 281 Gen. Joseph Hooker : Letter to President Abraham Lincoln , the day previous to the fight at Chan- cellorsville . ATHEISTS . Though a man ...
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... Education . Lect . vi . He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem . Milton : Apology for Smectymnuus . 356 The last thing that we find in making a book is to ...
... Education . Lect . vi . He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem . Milton : Apology for Smectymnuus . 356 The last thing that we find in making a book is to ...
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