 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...the body, are strong indications of futility. Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him — haste and hurry are very different things. I have only mentioned some of those things which may, and do, in the opinion of the world, lower and... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1815 - 360 pages
...body, are strong indications of futility . Whoever is in a hurry , shews thai the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry ~are very different things. To conclude: A man who has patiently been kicked , may as well pretend to courage , as a mau , blasted... | |
 | 1828 - 394 pages
...the body, are strong indications of futility. Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. LESSON LV1II. The Natural History of Ants. IN a former paper I supposed a mole-hill, inhabited by pismires... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...the body, are strong indications of futility. Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. CHESTERFIELD. LESSON CXVI. Demosthenes and Cicero Compared. 1. These are the most memorable circumstances... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1836 - 96 pages
...the body, are strong indications of futility. Whoever is in a hurry, shews that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. To conclude : a man who has patiently been kicked, may as well pretend to courage, as a man, blasted... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...the body, are strong indications of futility. Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him — haste and hurry are very different things. I have only mentioned some of those things which may, and do, in the opinion of the world, lower and... | |
 | 1841 - 300 pages
...the body, are strong indications of futility. Whoever is in a hurry, shows thai the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. To conclude : A man who has patiently been kicked may as well pretend to courage, as a man blasted... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847 - 492 pages
...the body, are strong indications of futility. Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. I have only mentioned some of those things which may and do, in the opinion of the world, lower and... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...which they precede; as — " Whoev'er - if' in a hur"ry - shows' - that' the thing" -he it' about"- is too' big" -for him ; haste' -and hurry - are ver'y different things'." When a parenthesis or an emphatic adverb follows the conjunction, it must be kept apart; as — " /'... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...the body, are strong indications of futility. Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. I have only mentioned some of those things which may, and do, in the opinion of the world, lower and... | |
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... exterior seriousness in looks and motions, gives dignity, without excluding wit and decent cheerfulness, which are always serious themselves. A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffling activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.... 
