 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1844 - 464 էջ
...unable to conceive. During the interval that had elapsed since the first Punic war, Hamilcar Barca had displayed the qualities which commonly distinguish...practical men, if they do not succeed in one way, will try another. There are, it is true, persons who succeed in nothing; but the old proverb audaces fortuna... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1844 - 932 էջ
...inscription would be the most ancient document in which the name of our nation is mentioned. The thing is themselves no longer against what they call fate,...practical men, if they do not succeed in one way, will try another. There are, it is true, persons who succeed in nothing, but the old proverb audaces fortuna... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1849 - 442 էջ
...unable to conceive. During the interval that had elapsed since the first Punic war, Hamilcar Barca had displayed the qualities which commonly distinguish...practical men, if they do not succeed in one way, will try another. There are, it is true, persons who succeed in nothing ; but the old proverb audaces fortuna... | |
 | 1851 - 682 էջ
...misfortunes. There are some who, when disappointed by the failure of an undertaking from which they had expected great things, make up their minds at once...perish : others, who are more practical men, if they have failed in one way, will try another." f Heeren's Political History of Greece, chapter xiii. acquire... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 684 էջ
...desponding and hopeless : but a third class of men will rouse themselves just at such moments, and suy to themselves, ' the more difficult it is to attain...perish : others, who are more practical men, if they have failed in one way, will try another." acquire political influence, and exert himself effectively... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 էջ
...each momenta, and eay to themselves, " the more difficult it is to attain my ends, the more honorable it will be ;" and this is a maxim which every one...himself as a law. Some of those who are guided by it, prosecnte their plana with obstinacy, and so perish : others, who are more practical men, if they have... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1854 - 812 էջ
...such moments and say to themselves, the more lilii -;;lt. it is to attain my ends the more honorable it will be ; and this is a maxim which every one should...obstinacy, and so perish, others, who are more practical meu, it they have failed in one way will try another. EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED. We hear day after day... | |
 | 1854 - 794 էջ
...difficult it is to attain my ends the more honorable it will be; and this is a maxim which every one ehoull impress upon himself as a law. Some of those who are...and so perish, others, who are more practical men, it they have failed in one way will try another. EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED. We hear day after day of strikes... | |
 | 1854 - 792 էջ
...in euch moments and say to themselves, the more difficult it is to attain my ends the more honorable it will be; and this is a maxim which every one should impress upon himself as a hw. Somu <if those who are guided by it prosecute their plans with obstinacy, nnd so perish, others,... | |
 | 1854 - 798 էջ
...this is a max1Ш which every one should impress upon himself аз a law. Some of those who are prided by it prosecute their plans with obstinacy, and so perish, others, who are more practical men, it they have failed in one way will try another. EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYED. We hear day after day of strikes... | |
| |
... once to exert themselves no longer against what they call fate, as if thereby they could avenge themselves upon fate ; others grow desponding and hopeless ; but a third class of men will rouse themselves just at such moments, and say to themselves,... 
