 | 1903 - 1186 páginas
...hand to execute.3 chap. xlmii. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Chap. xlix. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.4 chap. txriii. Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his... | |
 | William Mathews - 1903 - 442 páginas
...and an imprudent man are synonymous terms." RlOHKLJKU. " Fate is a good excuse for our own will." > " The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." — GIBBON. How far is worldly success or failure due to luck? There are some persons who, whatever... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 páginas
...hand to execute.3 chap, xtdii. Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Cli-lp. jr\lx. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.4 Chap. brill. Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his... | |
 | 1904 - 686 páginas
...determinable, are not comparable with the achievements of men of broader experience, it must be remembered that "the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." In the literature of every language are to be found many exhaustive treatises setting forth the etiology,... | |
 | 1905 - 330 páginas
...procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. — HAZLITT. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. — GIBBON. The wise prove, and the foolish confess, by their conduct that a life of employment is... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1908 - 524 páginas
...their passage ; their artillery swept the waters ; their liquid fire was poured on the heads of the adversaries who, with the design of boarding, presumed...conflict, the Imperial vessel, which had been almost overpowered, was rescued by the Genoese; but the Turks, in a distant and closer attack, were "uiuST'*... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 páginas
...good use of it. — Rochefoucauld. We are often able because we think we are able. — •/. Hawe». Johnson. Motives imply weakness, »iid the reasoning powers imply — Oibbon. ABSENCE. — Absence from those we love in self from self— a deadly banishraent. —... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 páginas
...good use of it.— Rochefoucauld. We are often able because we think we are able. — ./. flaute*. e, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably Q'ibbon. ABSENCE. — Absence from those we love in self from self— a deadly bauieuraent.— Shakespeare.... | |
 | Henry Pendexter Emerson, Ida Catherine Bender - 1911 - 404 páginas
...Marquette and La Salle explored the Mississippi Eiver. 5. The airs and streams renew their joyous tone. 6. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. LESSON XLV COMPOUND PREDICATES 121. The following sentence has only one predicate, but the predicate... | |
 | Albert Meader Chesley - 1910 - 328 páginas
...for a month or more on the program, and the stunts are all executed by members of the Associations. The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Gibbon. burlesque on the Pike. Another time it was an OldFashioncd County Fair. On Thanksgiving... | |
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... the winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. 
