| Capel Lofft - 1846 - 528 pagina’s
...listless quality, to clog and cumber the clockwork of the whole day. It is the ancient enemy, — the old man of the Arabian Tales. Once take him upon your...being, I clung to it, I cherished it. I made a point of every thing ; I was active, brisk, and animated (O, how true is that word ! ) in all things that I... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pagina’s
...listless quality, to clog and cumber the clockwork of the whole day. It is the ancient enemy — the old man of the Arabian Tales. Once take him upon your...that turn ; I felt the excellence of the practice, 1 was penetrated with it through all my being, I clung to it, I cherished it. I made a point of every... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1851 - 440 pagina’s
...noisome as ditch-water, vague, loose, and unprcdestinate as the clouds above our heads. However, 1 had sufficient of this energy to serve me for that...being, I clung to it, I cherished it. I made a point of every thing; I was active, brisk, and animated (O, how true is that word !) in all things that I did,... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 pagina’s
...; without it we are as powerless as grubs, noisome as ditch-water, vague, loose, and uupredestmate as the clouds above our heads. However, I had sufficient...being, I clung to it, I cherished it. I made a point of every thing ; I was active, brisk, and animated (oh ! how true is that word) in all things that I did,... | |
| 1859 - 188 pagina’s
...good thing of every sort or kind; without it we are as powerless as grubs, noisome as ditch water, vague, loose, and unpredestinate as the clouds above...being; I clung to it; I cherished it; I made a point of every thing; I was active, brisk, and animated (oh, how true is that word!) in all things that I did,... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pagina’s
...will; as, indeed, this same energy of will is requisite for every other good thing of whatever sort or kind: without it we are as powerless as grubs; noisome as ditch-water; vague, loose, and changeable first approach, of the insidious languor, I said at once within myself, " in the next quarter... | |
| Readings - 1866 - 196 pagina’s
...good thing of every sort or kind ; without it we are as powerless as grubs, noisome as ditch water, vague, loose, and unpredestinate as the clouds above...clung to it ; I cherished it ; I made^ a point of every thing; I was active, brisk, and animated (oh, how true is that word !) in all things that I did,... | |
| Godfrey Golding - 1873 - 348 pagina’s
...energy of will, as, indeed, this same energy is requisite for every other good thing, of every sort or kind ; without it we are as powerless as grubs, noisome...above our heads. However, I had sufficient of this Reap lasting joys. Grasp all, lose all. 3 t 0 (0 c £ n C S t, W energy to serve me. I soon felt the... | |
| James Madison Watson - 1875 - 486 pagina’s
...upon your shoulders, and he is not to be shaken 6ff so easily. 9. I had a notion of these truths,3 and I framed my plan after their rules ; I resolved...noisome as ditch-water, vague, loose, and unpredestinate 3 as the clouds above our heads. 10. However, I had sufficient of this energy to serve me for that... | |
| James Madison Watson - 1876 - 484 pagina’s
...upon your shoulders, and he is not to be shaken 6ff so easily. 9. I had a notion of these truths,2 and I framed my plan after their rules ; I resolved...noisome as ditch-water, vague, loose, and unpredestinate 3 as the clouds above our heads. 10. However, I had sufficient of this energy to serve me for that... | |
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