 | John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 482 pàgines
...which he was to have proved the independence of his understanding and liis will. He belongs to whateveV can seize him ; and innumerable things do actually...by every weed, and whirled in every little eddy." In the case of self-mastered souls, decision is remarkably unlike any habit of short-cutting by precipitate... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1880 - 686 pàgines
...one thing after another vindicates its right to him by arresting him while he is trying to proceed, as twigs and chips floating near the edge of a river...concluded on a design, he may pledge himself to accomplish it, if the hundred diversities of feeling which may come within the week will let him. His character... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pàgines
...one thing after another vindicates its right to him, by arresting him while he is trying to go on ; as twigs and chips floating near the edge of a river...concluded on a design, he may pledge himself to accomplish it, if the hundred diversities of feeling which may come within the work will let him. His character... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pàgines
...one thing after another vindicates its right to him, by arresting him while he is trying to go on ; a youngster. But, being ill-used by the above-mentioned...for a year and a half; and though, his temper being it — if the hundred diversities of feeling which may come within the week will let him. His character... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 pàgines
...one thing after another vindicates its right to him, by arresting him while he is trying to go on ; as twigs and chips floating near the edge of a river...concluded on a design, he may pledge himself to accomplish it, if the hundred diversities of feeling which may come within the work will let him. His character... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 396 pàgines
...one thing after another vindicates its right to him, by arresting him while he is trying to go on ; as twigs and chips, floating near the edge of a river,...concluded on a design, he may pledge himself to accomplish it — if the hundred diversities of feeling which may come within the week will let him. His character... | |
 | William Walters - 1883 - 208 pàgines
...another vindicates its right to him, by arresting him when he is trying to go on ; as chips and twigs, floating near the edge of a river, are intercepted by every weed, and whirled in every little eddy," Such a man cannot win success, inasmuch as he lacks one of its chief conditions. Use all proper means... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 pàgines
...one thing after another vindicates its right to him by arresting him while he is trying to proceed, as twigs and chips floating near the edge of a river...concluded on a design, he may pledge himself to accomplish it, if the hundred diversities of feeling which may come within the week will let him. His character... | |
 | Thomas Alfred Davies - 1884 - 558 pàgines
...and one thing after another vindicates its right to him by arresting him while he is trying to go on, as twigs and chips, floating near the edge of a river,...concluded on a design, he may pledge himself to accomplish it, if the hundred diversities of feeling which may come within the week will let him. His character... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 pàgines
...one thing after another vindicates its right to him, by arresting him while he is trying to go on ; as twigs and chips floating near the edge of a river are intercepted liy every weed and whirled in every little rddy. Having concluded on a design he may pledge himself... | |
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... as twigs and chips, floating near the edge of a river, are intercepted by every weed, and whirled in every little eddy. 
