 | 1817 - 702 pagina’s
...most solid improve-' ment from those relations which are revelled to the general surface of social' life ; which tell, not how men learned to conquer,...they endeavoured to live; not how they gained' the shoal* of admiring crowds, but how they justly acquired the esteem of their acquaintance. Few as were... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 478 pagina’s
...of mankind find the most real improvement from relations which are levelled to the general surface of life, which tell — not how men learned to conquer,...they endeavoured to live — not how they gained the shout of the admiring crowd, but how they acquired the esteem of their friends and acquaintance. Every... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 540 pagina’s
...of mankind find the most real improvement from relations which are levelled to the general surface of life, which tell — not how men learned to conquer, but how they endeavored to live — not how they gained the shout of the admiring crowd, but how they acquired the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 546 pagina’s
...of mankind find the most real improvement from relations wb: ' are levelled to the general surface of life, which tell — not how men learned to conquer, but how they endeavored to live — not how they gained the shout of the admiring crowd, but how they acquired the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 pagina’s
...generality of mankind fmd the most real improvement from relations which are levelled to the general surface of life, which tell — not how men learned to conquer,...they endeavoured to live — not how they gained the shout of the admiring crowd, but how they acquired the esteem of their friends and acquaintance. Every... | |
 | Angus Macdonald - 1885 - 176 pagina’s
...the most solid improvement from those relations which are levelled to the general surface of social life ; which tell not how men learned to conquer,...they endeavoured to live ; not how they gained the shouts of admiring crowds, but how they justly acquired the esteem of their acquaintances and friends."... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1914 - 434 pagina’s
...of mankind find the most real improvement from relations which are levelled to the general surface of life ; which tell, not how men learned to conquer,...they endeavoured to live ; not how they gained the shout of the admiring crowd, but how they acquired the esteem of their friends and acquaintance. Every... | |
 | Waldo Hilary Dunn - 1916 - 354 pagina’s
...of mankind find the most real improvement from relations which are levelled to the general surface of life, which tell — not how men learned to conquer,...they endeavoured to live — not how they gained the shout of the admiring crowd, but how they acquired the esteem of their friends and acquaintance." l... | |
 | Mark Salber Phillips - 2000 - 390 pagina’s
...of mankind find the most real improvement from relations which are levelled to the general surface of life; which tell, not how men learned to conquer,...they endeavoured to live; not how they gained the shout of the admiring croud, but how they acquired the esteem of their friends and acquaintance. (2-3)... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 pagina’s
...of mankind find the most real improvement from relations which are levelled to the general surface of life; which tell, not how men learned to conquer, but how they endeavoured to live . . . ." Toward the end of the century John Bennett addresses "a young lady" on the topic of biography... | |
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The relations of great events may surprise indeed ; they may be calculated to instruct those very few who govern the million beneath : but the generality of mankind find the most real improvement from relations which are levelled to the general surface... 
