 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with...employment and happiness, — whether it be to make caskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a...statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Soc> rates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so. In... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...good, and power of accommodation to an; circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortun< of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which toi him in employment and happiness, — whether it be to m^j baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a...truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so. will mirror back to him its unfathomable heaven, its populous solitude. The uses of travel are occasional,... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...— welcome" ! And they add : " The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born to some pursuit which finds him in employment and...or broadswords, or canals or statutes, or songs." The acting head of a great business that reaches on the one hand into every market and manufactory... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...— welcome " ! And they add : " The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born to some pursuit which finds him in employment and...or broadswords, or canals or statutes, or songs." The acting head of a great business that reaches on the one hand into every market and manufactory... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...ever made an ill• figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.— SWIFT. The crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a...pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. — RW EMERSON. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed ; be anything else, and you will... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...ever made an ill-figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. — SWIFT. The crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a...pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. — RW EMERSON. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed ; be anything else, and you will... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...ever made an ill-figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. — SWIFT. The crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a...pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness. — RW EMERSON. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed ; be anything else, and you will... | |
 | A. P. Russell - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...good," says Emerson, " and power of accommodation to any circumstance; but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with...be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs." Wordsworth's man-servant, James, was brought up in a work-house, and at nine years... | |
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Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance ; but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness, — whether it be to make baskets,... 
