Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. Say rather it is like the natural unguent of the sea-fowl's plumage, which enables him to shed the rain that falls... The North British review - Seite 4751860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 Seiten
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 Seiten
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. Say rather jt is like the natural unguent of the sea-fowl's plumage, which enables him to shed the rain that falls... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected ! ted up, and disregarding both hunger and fatigue, travelled When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when ho has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 Seiten
...companion affords great relicf. It is like taking the cat in your lap after holding the squirrel. VI. Talk about conceit as much as you like; it is to human char•cter what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable. When one has had... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 Seiten
...many small talcnte and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as yon like, it is to human character what salt is to the...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one bas had all his conceit taken out of him, when he bas lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 244 Seiten
...this encouraging principle, how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected ! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...that falls on him, and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost nil his illusions, his feathers... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 Seiten
...for this encouraging principle, how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like: it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost tdl his illusions, his feathers... | |
| James Ball (conveyancing clerk.) - 1878 - 208 Seiten
...from a few examples. The ' Autocrat' has led the conversation to the subject of "Conceit." He says : " Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...that falls on him, and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lr all his illusions, his feathers will... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1879 - 510 Seiten
...encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected ! jjalk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
| William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 242 Seiten
...for this encouraging principle how many small talents and little accomplishments would be neglected! Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human...rain that falls on him and the wave in which he dips. When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers... | |
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