 | John Brown - 1861 - 548 pages
...attainment. He is one of the men—they are all too few—who desire to be on the side of truth more than to have truth on their side; and whose personal and private...happily said of him, that he never wastes a word, or a drop of ink, or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest, exactest, truest, immediatest, safest... | |
 | John Brown - 1861 - 482 pages
...He is one of the men — they are all too few — who desire to be on the side of truth more than to have truth on their side; and whose personal and private...better understood than expressed. It has been happily laid of him, that he never wastes a word, or a drop of 12 PREFACE. ink, or a drop of blood ; and his... | |
 | John Brown - 1865 - 462 pages
...He is one of the men —they are all too few — who desire to be on the side of truth more than to have truth on their side; and whose personal and private...happily said of him, that he never wastes a word, or a drop of ink, or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest, exactest, truest, immediatest, safest... | |
 | John Brown - 1865 - 464 pages
...He is one of the men — they are all too few — who desire to be on the side of truth more than to have truth on their side; and whose personal and private...happily said of him, that he never wastes a word, or a drop of ink, or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest, exactest, truest, ira mediatesi, safest... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 468 pages
...He is one of the men — they are all too few — who desire to be on the side of truth more than to have truth on their side; and whose personal and private...happily said of him, that he never wastes a word, or a drop of ink, or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest, exactest, truest, immediatest, safest... | |
 | John Brown - 1884 - 470 pages
...He is one of the men — they are all too few — who desire to be on the side of truth more than to have truth on their side; and whose personal and private...better understood than expressed. It has been happily •aid of him, that he never wastes a word, or a drop of ink, or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest,... | |
 | John Brown - 1885 - 562 pages
...is one of the men—they are all too few—who desire to be on the side of truth more even than to have truth on their side ; and whose personal and...happily said of him, that he never wastes a word, or a drop of ink, or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest, exactest, truest, immediatest, safest... | |
 | John Brown - 1885 - 550 pages
...is one of the men—they are all too few—who desire to be on the side of truth more even than to have truth on their side ; and whose personal and...happily said of him, that he never wastes a word, or a drop of ink, or a drop of blood; and his is the strongest, exactest, truest, immediatest, safest... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - 1887 - 478 pages
...his old master's chief characteristics — Verax, capax, perspicax, sagax, efficax, tenax. He adds : "It has been happily said of him that he never wastes a word, or a drop of ink, or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest, exactest, tmest, immediatest, safest... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - 1887 - 462 pages
...his old master's chief characteristics— Verax, capax, perspicax, sagax, efficax, tenax. He adds : "It has been happily said of him that he never wastes a word, or a drop of ink, or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest, exactest, truest, immediatest, safest... | |
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have truth on their side, and whose personal and private worth are always better understood than expressed. It has been happily said of him, that he never wastes a word, a drop of ink, or a drop of blood, and his is the strongest, exactest, truest, 
