 | John Foster - 1826 - 290 pàgines
...capricious fate, to his life. Thus he is occupied—instead of catching with a vigilant eye, and seizing with a strong hand, all the possibilities of his actual...powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make a capture of the hapless boaster the very next moment, and triumphantly exhibit the futility of... | |
 | Caroline Fry - 1830 - 370 pàgines
...recognized, it is curious to lee how the space clears around a man, and leaves him room and freedom A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself. FOSTER. MR. LISTENER, I DARE SAY it has happened to you often, for you appear to be a considerable... | |
 | Caroline Fry Wilson - 1832 - 284 pàgines
...recognised, it is curious to see how the space clears around a man, and leaves him room and freedom A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself. FOSTEB. I DARE SAY it has happened to you often — to pause upon some eminence attained, and, looking... | |
 | John Mather Austin - 1839 - 496 pàgines
...decision, however formed, for any reasonable length of time. This latter failing is very unfortunate. "A man without decision, can never be said to belong to himself; since, if he dared to assert that he dici, the puny force of some cause, about as powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make... | |
 | 1851 - 428 pàgines
...which could not have been exercised with propriety by any common stranger." A MAN WITHOUT DECISION. A MAN without decision can never be said to belong to himself; since, if dared to assent that he did, the puny force of some cause, about as powerful, you would have supposed,... | |
 | George Combe - 1845 - 498 pàgines
...capricious fate, to his life. Thus he is occupied — instead of catching with a vigilant eye, and seizing with a strong hand, all the possibilities of his actual...powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make a capture of the hapless boaster the very next moment, and triumphantly exhibit the futility of... | |
 | John Foster - 1846 - 370 pàgines
...capricious fate, to his life. Thus he is occupied — instead of marking with a vigilant eye, and seizing with a strong hand, all the possibilities of his actual...powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make a seizure of the hapless boaster the very next moment, and contemptuously exhibit the futility... | |
 | John Mather Austin - 1847 - 394 pàgines
...decision, however formed, for any reasonable length of time. This latter failing is very unfortunate. " A man without decision, can never be said to belong...powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make a capture of the hapless boaster the very next moment, and triumphantly exhibit the futility of... | |
 | George Combe - 1850 - 452 pàgines
...capricious fate, to his life. Thus he is occupied — instead of catching with a vigilant eye, and seizing with a strong hand, all the possibilities of his actual...powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make a capture of the hapless boaster the very next moment, and triumphantly exhibit the futility of... | |
 | Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1850 - 304 pàgines
...pain, Never in triumph till her race is won, And never fainting till her work be done. CRABBE. VOL. I. A MAN without decision can never be said to belong...powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make a captive of the hapless boaster the very next moment, and triumphantly exhibit the futility of... | |
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A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; since, if he dared to assert that he did, the puny force of some cause, about as powerful, you would have supposed, as a spider, may make a seizure of the... 
