 But the extempore speaker, who is to invent as well as to utter, to carry on an operation of the mind as well as to produce sound, enters upon the work without preparatory discipline, and then wonders that he fails!  The North American Review - Pàgina 58editat per - 1829Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 478 pàgines
...then wonders that he fails ! If he were learning to play on the flute for public exhibition, how many hours and days would he spend in giving facility to his fingers, and in attaining the power of the sweetest and most expressive execution ! " The author cannot commend... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 476 pàgines
...produce sound, enters upon the work without preparatory discipline, and then wonders that he fails! If he were learning to play on the flute for public exhibition, how many hours and days would he spend in giving facility to his fingers, and in attaining the power... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - 1906 - 208 pàgines
...The loss of reputation for good management, is, in this case, to be traced to a little circumstance. If he were learning to play on the flute for public...power of the sweetest and most impressive execution. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones. I've had wrongs... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1908 - 622 pàgines
...produce sound, enters upon the work without preparatory discipline and then wonders that he fails! If he were learning to play on the flute for public...fingers, and attaining the power of the sweetest and most expressive execution ! If he were devoting himself to the organ, what months and years would he labor... | |
 | 1908 - 622 pàgines
...produce sound, enters upon the work without preparatory discipline aud then wonders that he fails ! If he were learning to play on the flute for public...fingers, and attaining the power of the sweetest and most expressive execution ! If he were devoting himself to the organ, what months and years would he labor... | |
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