...COMFORTS OF CONCEITEDNESS. By Mrs, Hofland. " SOMB men are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them ;" but he who enjoys...warrior, the power of the statesman, the ancestral Mr. Honeywood, when I first knew him, was a hale man, on the right side of fifty, well to do in the...

...Lichfield — Henry Law (cousin), Archdeacon of Wells— RV Law (cousin), Prebendary of Chester. " Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." — The family of the Laws, from which the noble person who forms the subject of this portrait is descended,...

...universal Man, shall speak to you ; and here, meditating among the tombs, I was reminded of that saying, " Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." The history of three great men, whose bones lie here, is somewhat illustrative of that same. Magnanimous...

...himself. It does not appear that he had ever indulged the notion of entering into parliament, but " some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them ;" and this last was the case of Mr. Sadler. In the ominous month of February, 1829, the cabinet of...

...Great Britain and India, on an appointment which we be* lieve will give universal satisfaction. SOM* men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them : all this is well established. But there is another mode of attaining greatness, which has been often...

...upon us thick and fast, as if, in justification of the old proverb, that it never rains but it pours. Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. This last is the strange case of our renowned friend the Man from London. We deny not that he was born...

...said, — I think it is tingreat dramatist who makes one of his characters utter the saying that " some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." It seems to me that any chance I may have must come into the same category as that of Malvolio. A fortuitous...

...children are still with us—Lieut.-Col. DeSalaberry, DAG, being the representative of the family. Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. If the hero of our story was not born great in a world-wide sense, he had the fortune to be born of...

...conscience of worthy enterprises, than in the prospect of glory which attends them. Spectator, No. 172. SOME men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Twelfth Night. " NOTHING," says Longinus, " can be great, the contempt of which is great." THE superiority...

...whom the highest civil honors of the great republic are worthily bestowed. GENERAL ZACHAKY TAYLOR. " ' Some men are born great — some achieve greatness — and some have greatness thrust upon them.' Thus reads, in substance, a pithy apothegm, penned by a writer who never missed his mark and never...